For once, the hype was justified. The world wide web really did transform the world in a way that can be compared to the impact of the printing press, or the mass media of the 20th century. The internet existed before the web, of course, but it was hardly used. The genius of Tim Berners-Lee was to glimpse, 30 years ago this week, how it might be brought to life by a simple scheme to allow every part to find, and talk with, every other part, using words, sounds, pictures or anything else that can be digitised.
This was useful enough. Two further developments made it indispensable. The first was the development of graphical browsers, allowing the web to be navigated through pictures with a mouse; the second was its indexing and organisation by search engines.
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