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Tag: world-wide-web

Gopher and the Menu-Driven Internet That Almost Preceded the Web

Gopher made distributed Internet information feel like one navigable hierarchy of menus, growing rapidly alongside the early Web before hypertext, browser innovation, and changing economics pushed it aside.

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The World Wide Web: How CERN Turned the Internet into a Universal Information Space

Tim Berners-Lee's Web joined universal identifiers, hypertext, a simple transfer protocol and portable document markup into an open information system that could spread across the Internet.

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