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The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which
we communicate by sharing information. Its universality is essential:
the fact that a hypertext link can point to anything, be it personal,
local or global, be it draft or highly polished. There was a second
part of the dream, too, dependent on the Web being so generally
used that it became a realistic mirror (or in fact the primary embodiement)
of the ways in which we work and play and socialize. That was that
once the state of our interactions was on line, we could then use
computers to help us analyze it, make sense of what we are doing,
where we individually fit in, and how we can better work together.
Tim Berners-Lee,
"The World Wide Web: A Very Short Personal History" (http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee)
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