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Randy Adams
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LEIGH HALFPENNY has spoken out for the first time since injuries forced him to miss the World Cup, admitting that he is devastated, but insisting the Warren Gatland man could go all the way. Berners-Lee arrived in Washington on his internet salvation mission earlier today. On this winters day, Berners-Lee had come to Washington for an annual conference for the World Wide Web Foundation, a group that he founded in 2009 with the goal of protecting human rights on the digital landscape.
Nearly three decades before that, Berners-Lee had invented the Internet. Berners-Lee understood that in order for the Web to flourish, it needed to be free from patents, fees, royalties, or any other controls. Berners-Lee also imagined that the Internet, in the wrong hands, could become the destroyer of the world.
From the start, indeed, Berners-Lee understood how the webs colossal power could fundamentally change governments, businesses, societies. It would take almost ten years for Berners-Lee to perfect the technology, rebrand it, release the source code. Berners-Lees innovation was originally intended to help scientists share data on the then-obscure platform called the Internet, a version of which had been in use by the US government since the 1960s.
What this led to was that there was great promise of social mobility among many. At the same time, many people began to feel their governments had failed them, which predated the pandemic. For Berners-Lee, a mushroom cloud was forming in front of her eyes. For a brief moment, recalling how he had responded to recent Web abuse, Berners-Lee was silent; he was practically sad.
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