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The success of the web: a triumph of the amateurs

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Connecting the unique factors that influenced the origination and subsequent development of the World Wide Web.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 62, Issue 8
      August 2019
      88 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3351434
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