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Published online 30 December 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021230-3
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Browsers go back to the future
Programmers redesign button that accounts for 40% of all Internet clicks.
Computer scientists have redesigned the way the back button works so that it really can retrace your Internet steps. They have replaced the current stacking system, which only records index pages, with one that records every page in the order it was visited.
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