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The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy.

Tim Berners-Lee

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Tim Berners-Lee
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 8
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Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.
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I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.
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