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Electronic publishing and visions of hypertext

01 Jun 1992

Tim Berners-Lee predicts the future of online publishing in an article he wrote for Physics World in June 1992. This article was republished in March 2019 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web. Links and images have been added that did not appear in the original print-only version

First Web server
This NeXT workstation was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first Web server. It is now displayed at Microcosm, the public science museum at CERN. (CC BY-SA 3.0/Coolcaesar)
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Tim Berners-Lee was in the computing and networks division at CERN, and is project leader of the W3 initiative
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