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Sir Tim Berners-Lee has something to say about the state of the World Wide Web. What does he know about the Web? Lots, because he invented it.

Dear Reader,

Sir Tim Berners-Lee has something to say about the state of the World Wide Web. What does he know about the Web? Lots, because he invented it.

Berners-Lee was working as a fellow at the CERN lab in Geneva, Switzerland in 1989 when he noticed that, if the people working on hypertext and the people working on TCP/IP networking would get together, the result might be something very interesting. He wrote the first web browser, and the first web server, and he helped develop the specification for the magic string we know today as a URL. He also founded the World Wide Web Consortium and has been active in developing and popularizing the web ever since.

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