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facilitate a more socially connected Web where everyone is able to add to and edit the
information space.
What both of these perspectives highlight is a focus on the services, but these are just
the visible tip of the iceberg. Berners-Lee’s rst priority is with the Web as an evolving
technical infrastructure: the technologies, standards and protocols on top of which the
services sit. is ongoing development is more of a perpetual beta than ‘Web 2.0’ and is
invisible to most of us.
1.5.2 The Remorseless Logic of the Link
There is one final aspect of the Web that needs to be taken into account when trying
to understa ...