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The Web's Founding Move

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The World Wide Web began as a way to link content stored on different machines — invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1989, its transfer protocol running atop the Internet's own.

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One researcher's linking mechanism became the default interface to information.

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The Web is a layer on the Internet, not a synonym.