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When it was first conceived by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990, the World Wide Web (WWW) [1] was intended as a way for the publication and sharing of information among researchers at CERN. The original WWW browser allowed users to both browse and edit pages but the full vision of a network where anyone could be a producer and publisher of content didn’t come to fruition until almost a decade later. Before the DotCom boom and the arrival of wikis, blogs, etc. was possible, a whole global infrastructure had first to be built. Routers and service providers to route traffic, Web browsers to allow users to access pages provided by Web servers, caching and billing protocols to improve performance and allow for the development of commercial enterprises, among many others.
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Gonçalves, B., Perra, N. (2015). Introduction. In: Gonçalves, B., Perra, N. (eds) Social Phenomena. Computational Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14011-7_1
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