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by musicale 1320 days ago
Turing award recipient Tim Berners-Lee was working at a particle physics lab (CERN) when he invented the web.

So what exactly were all of those "computer science" labs and the computer/software/networking industry doing at the time?

(Nothing against HyperCard, Intermedia, Xanadu, or America Online - they are/were interesting and/or successful systems that seem to have had some good ideas and features. And some 30 years later IPv6 does seem to be finally taking off.)