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It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently.

Tim Berners-Lee

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Tim Berners-Lee
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 8
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