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Tim Berners-Lee's first proposal for the World Wide Web was written at CERN in 1989 as an information management idea, not as a social media machine.

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Berners-Lee's first proposal for the World Wide Web, written at CERN in 1989, was famously marked by his boss 'vague but exciting' — the understatement that launched the web.

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Tim Berners-Lee'nin World Wide Web için ilk önerisi, 1989'da CERN'de bir bilgi yönetimi fikri olarak yazıldı; bir sosyal medya makinesi olarak değil.

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Berners-Lee'nin, 1989'da CERN'de yazdığı ilk World Wide Web önerisi, patronu tarafından meşhur bir biçimde 'belirsiz ama heyecan verici' diye işaretlenmişti — web'i başlatan alçakgönüllü söz.

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Tim Berners-Lee's first proposal for the World Wide Web was written at CERN in 1989 as an information management idea, not as a social media machine.

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