Milestones in the digital revolution

9/16/2014

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Vanity Fair (Sept. 16) -- As ordinary folks began flooding onto the Internet, in 1994, another phenomenon exploded: the World Wide Web. It was created by Tim Berners-Lee, an Oxford-educated engineer who took a job at the CERN laboratory. His web spread rapidly after Marc Andreessen, then an undergraduate at Illinois, created an easy-to-install browser that allowed personal-computer users to call up Web sites.


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This story was published September 16, 2014.