The Web was created to share physics documents

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The entire digital ecosystem of memes, arguments, and shopping only exists because nerds hate walking. Tim Berners-Lee created the Web at CERN in 1989 purely as an information management system so particle physicists could read each other's documents across different computers. He birthed the information age just to avoid taking a bus to another laboratory.

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Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN in Switzerland, primarily as a tool for scientists to easily share academic research documents across different institutional computers.

Satellite internet connected remote villages—and hooked them

Russell Seitz, a physicist, calculated that the physical weight of all the moving electrons that make up the entire internet is roughly fifty grams, which is approximately the same mass as a single strawberry.

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