World Wide Web
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As bleak, frightening and all-around life-ruining as the internet has proven itself to be, there was a time not long ago when the World Wide Web felt like a portal, not a black hole.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2026
The World Wide Web emerged just as the Soviet Union was collapsing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
Mainframe computers were disrupted by PCs, which were disrupted by the World Wide Web, which was disrupted by smartphones.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
"If it's smarter than you, then we have to keep it contained," warned Tim Berners Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, talking to the BBC earlier this month.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
While consulting for CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland, he created the World Wide Web and posted the first Web site in 1991.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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