Meeting the pioneers of the world wide web
Our weekly podcast on the innovations, discoveries and gadgetry making the news
WHAT IS the difference between the internet and the world wide web? Kenneth Cukier gets in the “Babbage” time machine and travels to 1989, when Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote the famous memo that laid the web’s foundations. We hear from other figures that influenced its invention, like Ted Nelson and Vint Cerf, and then ask what the web might look like in the future.
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