Worldwide web turns 20

Martin Courtney
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In March 1989, Cern staffer Tim Berners-Lee proposed a revolutionary new system for sharing information, and unwittingly changed the world forever. Martin Courtney looks back

The first web server in the US came online at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in 1993, four years after Tim Berners-Lee first proposed a "universal linked information system" Tomorrow (Fri...

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