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Three protocols lie at the core of the original Web proposal: the Uniform Resource Locator, the HyperText Transfer Protocol, and the HyperText Markup Language. This chapter is dedicated to their introduction and illustrates the basics of their way of working.
The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.
Tim Berners-Lee
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LATEX is Leslie Lamport’s extension to Donald Knuth’s TEX, which was released in 1978.
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Aiello, M. (2018). The Original Web Pattern. In: The Web Was Done by Amateurs. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90008-7_4
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