Editorial: Thirty years ago, a physicist dreamed up a way to organise information from multiple computers all on one screen. The world will never be the same
For once, the hype was justified. The world wide web really did transform the world in a way that can be compared to the impact of the printing press, or the mass media of the 20th century. The internet existed before the web, of course, but it was hardly used.
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