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25 things you might not know about the web on its 25th birthday

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1 The importance of "permissionless innovation" The thing that is most extraordinary about the internet is the way it enables permissionless innovation. This stems from two epoch-making design decisions made by its creators in the early 1970s: that there would be no central ownership or control; and that the network would not be optimised for any particular application: all it

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Americans can’t live without the web – but social media is a different story

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With its 25th birthday coming up in March, the internet is the most popular millennial in America. New data from the Pew Research Internet Project illustrates America’s embrace of – and increasing reliance on – the internet since the 1990s. More than half of Americans (53%) admit they would find the internet “very hard” to give up, compared with 38%

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