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Happy birthday to the WWW

By Mike Hanlon

03:40 August 7, 2007 PDT

Happy birthday to the WWW

Happy birthday to the WWW

The invention of the Internet cannot be pinned down to any specific time, place or person as it was developed primarily for military and scientific applications throughout the 60s and 70s in the US. The World Wide Web on the other hand, the basic software building-block that makes access and categorisation of the billions of documents that sit on the Internet possible, can be attributed to one person - Tim Berners-Lee. The world wide web turned 16 yesterday – here’s the original post that started it all.

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