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30 Years of the Public World Wide Web

Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the web in 1989, but it took two more years before his concept of "a large hypertext database with typed links" became publicly available. Take a look back at how the World Wide Web changed in the past three decades — there are more than 1.8 billion websites today — and why Berners-Lee believes it's time to try something new.

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    NOW the web is 30 years old: When Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server

    NOW the web is 30 years old: When Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server

    It happened 30 years ago on a NeXTStation: Tim Berners-Lee turned on a World Wide Web server -- and the internet would never be the same again. Today, …

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