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Word: hypermedia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Berners-Lee wrote a proposal to link CERN's resources by hypertext. He noted that in principle, these resources could be text, graphics, video, anything--a "hypermedia" system--and that eventually the system could go global. "This initial document didn't go down well," says Berners-Lee. But he persisted and won the indulgence of his boss, who okayed the purchase of a NeXT computer. Sitting on Berners-Lee's desk, it would become the first Web content "server," the first node in this global brain. In collaboration with colleagues, Berners-Lee developed the three technical keystones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIM BERNERS-LEE: THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE WEB | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

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