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What is the Web?
- "Cyberspace" (William Gibson, Neuromancer, 1984)
- ...a network with no central authority
- ...designed to operate while in tatters in case of global cataclysm
- UCLA, ARPA/DARPA,
Mission: to communicate research, share computer time
- a dedicated, high-speed, federally subsidized post-office
- Tim Berners-Lee (invented HTML, concept of hypermedia)
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