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28 years after creating the web, Berners Lee unveils plan to save it

A set of principles have been prepared to guide the future of the web. These principles include ensuring that governments allow everyone to connect and have privacy

Net neutrality, Internet, Web
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Net neutrality, Internet, Web

Pranjal Sharma
Among the important milestones that led to the creation of the World Wide Web is November 12. This week, 28 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee his colleague Robert Cailliau published a proposal to create the web. Often confused, there is a difference between the internet and the web. The internet connects the computers while the web connects the content and pages to each other using a common protocol. This is the protocol that Berners-Lee and his colleague created using technologies involving HTTP, URL and HTML. Despite all the advancement, we continue to use three technologies. 

I heard Berners-Lee at the Web Summit
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