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Subject: Move Over Al Gore

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Steve Heller
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06/19/2008 5:55 PM Alert 
Okay, so Al Gore did not invent the World Wide Web. But today the New York Times tells us who did:

Historians typically trace the origins of the World Wide Web through a lineage of Anglo-American inventors like Vannevar Bush, Doug Engelbart and Ted Nelson. But more than half a century before Tim Berners-Lee released the first Web browser in 1991, Paul Otlet (pronounced ot-LAY) described a networked world where “anyone in his armchair would be able to contemplate the whole of creation.”

And here's what it looked like. . .

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