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Internet Blacklist Bill

Celebrate The World Wide Web’s 20th Birthday — Ask Your Lawmakers To Oppose The Internet

By David Segal on August 9, 2011

It was twenty years ago this week that Tim Berners-Lee, while working at CERN, put the world’s first website online. It announced his new creation: the World Wide Web. Last year while urging Internet users to sign Demand Progress’s petition against the Internet Blacklist Bill, Berners-Lee wrote this about the principles that underpin his project: [...]

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