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August 6, 2011 06:16 pm GMT

The Web Is 20 Years Old Today

Screen Shot 2011-08-06 at 4.14.02 PMIt was twenty years ago today/ Tim Berners-Lee taught the world to play/ Although 20 years ago he would have sworn/ That there wouldn't have been so much porn. That's right - the world's first website, a placeholder page written by Sir Berners-Lee way back on August 6, 1991 in the then-nascent Hypertext Mark-Up Language, is celebrating its 20th birthday today. And, on this important anniversary, we ask what hath the web wrought?

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