The World Wide Web was the brainchild of Tim Berners-Lee, a 37-year-old researcher at a physics lab in Switzerland called CERN. The institution is known today for its massive particle accelerators.

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The World Wide Web was the brainchild of Tim Berners-Lee, a 37-year-old researcher at a physics lab in Switzerland called CERN. The institution is known today for its massive particle accelerators.

Thirty years have passed since the World Wide Web was released into the public domain. Everything on the web, every time you’ve typed “www.” into a browser—or even used a browser—traces ...