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Nature Cell Biology 7, 845 (1 September 2005) | doi:10.1038/ncb0905-845b

The web as originally intended

When Tim Berners-Lee created the web in the early 1990s at CERN, it was to enhance collaboration among geographically dispersed researchers. However, rather than a passive tool for information retrieval, the first browser was designed to allow one to readily post comments on what others had written.