From the course: What Comes Next is the Future: Creating the Web

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Connecting and distributing

Connecting and distributing

(bubbly electronic music) - The web for me and just like, the ability to connect pieces and people has, I think, always been one of the best things about it. - Whether it's somebody sharing something somebody post a photo on Tumblr, it's instantly shared to somewhere else like Facebook and people laugh at a cat. It's this ability to share rapidly. It is incredible. - The idea behind what Tim had done was essentially anybody can publish information on the web. All you have to do is run a little bit of server code and then you get this magic thing called a hyperlink with the URL that refers to your machine and tells people how to get it and then you can hyperlink to other information too. - For the hypertext things to work, you have to be able to link to anything. And so to be able to link to anything, that means you have to put anything on the web. So the system had to be really designed to work without putting any constraints to on what sort of things should go on there. - You have…

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