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Images: Berners-Lee and the dawn of the Web

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March 13, 2009 9:38 AM PDT

Browsing? Double-click? Oh, how much we still had to learn. This screenshot from the Next computer shows what was brewing in the early days of hypertext. The first section of the main document here also shows what could still be considered a good rule of thumb when browsing for information: "The WWW project does not take responsibility for the accuracy of information provided by others."

The world's first-ever Web site? Info.cern.ch

Photo by CERN

Caption by Jonathan Skillings

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