The World Wide Web turns 20 - how it's changed the world forever

Dan Worth
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From new businesses to political dissension, we examine how the web has affected humankind

On 6 August 1991, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, then a humble scientist at CERN, made the first page on the World Wide Web publicly available in a move that, unbeknown to him at the time, would change the w...

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