HealthTech Magazines September 3, 2021
By Melissa Fox, COO, Acenda Integrated Health
On August 6, 1991, the World Wide Web was thrust into the public spotlight for the first time with the launch of a fledgling website by Tim Berners-Lee. Though the internet was actually invented in 1969, it was only used to allow computers to communicate with each other. Until Berners-Lee invented a way for users to search for and access information, the practical application of the medium had not been fully realized.
However, there was slow adoption of the game-changing invention, which was promoted with lofty language. For example, an advertisement from 1993 explained, “The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information...
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