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Sixteen and counting: sharing science on the Web

On August 6, 1991, a post to a Usenet newsgroup started a revolution. Today, the world is tantalizingly close to realizing the vision hinted at in that post to alt.hypertext sixteen years ago.
Seeking a way to facilitate the sharing of data among high energy physicists, a contractor named Tim Berners-Lee designed a system “to allow [...]