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dot com and secure your seats today it's friday december 9th. I'm Jackson Bird today. A browser button proposed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1997 that could have changed the web as we know it. Or could it? Plus eight artists from around the world are officially going on a trip around the moon,

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Going back and reading what some of the early founders of the internet thought about what it would become is always fascinating and often a

little disappointing. What the web has become is very different from what its founder, Tim Berners-Lee, intended.

To hear him describe it in a talk he gave at the World Wide Web Consortium meeting in London at the end of 1997,

his original vision almost sounds more like a work productivity tool,

which is basically what he built it to be when he created a forerunner

to the web for him and his coworkers at CERN in the 80s.

He says the first goal of the web was simply to work together better.

It's wild to think that he's talking about the entirety of the World Wide Web when his

description comes across more

like a pitch for Slack or Trello. As he outlines the many benefits of his original vision of the

web within companies, Bernersley drops this doozy, quote, the web was designed as an instrument

to prevent misunderstandings."

Dang.

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