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Tim Berners-Lee: Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter (medium.com)

submitted 8 months ago by SorteKanin@feddit.dk to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Tim’s intention with the web was information sharing. He wanted a way for academics to share their work with other academics. He identified a problem at his time at CERN, and proposed a solution.

Then corporations were quick on capitalizing on this idea.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago

Yes sorry I was being sarcastic.

I think it’s a tragedy we’ve lost individual websites and services, and the modern web is dying.