W3 or www launched in 1990, introducing itself on the first web site at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) as a “wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.” This was a convoluted geek way of saying: All of human knowledge is linked to each other in an endless and ever-evolving chain of everything. This critical concept and the terms that were coined by techie Ted Nelson were, as the very simple CERN page noted, “not constrained to be linear.” Translation: It would be everything, everywhere, all at
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