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“Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.”

Quote by Tim Berners-Lee

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Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee, a renowned computer scientist, was born on June 8, 1955. He is credited with inventing the World Wide Web, which has had a profound impact on the development of the internet. more

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