Babbage: Pioneers of the WWW

Babbage from The Economist

English - March 13, 2019 16:00 - 20 minutes - 47.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 398 ratings
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Kenneth Cukier gets in the Babbage time machine and travels to 1989, when Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote the famous memo that laid the foundations for the world wide web. Kenn speaks to some of the other key figures that influenced its invention, like Ted Nelson and Vint Cerf, and then asks what the WWW might look like in the future.

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