World Wide Web celebrates 25th anniversary
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Channel: Al Jazeera English · 2014 · News & Politics
Twenty-five years ago, a British computer scientist submitted a proposal for what he called a distributed information system. Today almost three billion people use what we now know as the World Wide Web. But another 4 billion people are still off-line - many of them among the world's poorest. Al Jazeera's Tarek Bazley reports.
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