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The world wide web has existed longer than the time between the inventions of the radio and television

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Why do I have August 6, 1991 on my mind for “the world wide web switches on”?
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  That was the day he opened it up to the world. 1989 was when he got it working at CERN, and it was released into the public domain in 1993.
  
  https://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/

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