The emergence of the Web in 1991, within the CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) in Genève, Switzerland, was a milestone in the history of humanity, changing the way communication, democratizing access to information and knowledge. With the Web, humanity passes into a stage of collective intelligence(1), where everyone, except the info-excluded, has the possibility to share information. The Web was invented by the visionary British scientist, Tim Berners-Lee. He suggested the so-called global hypertext system.
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