Web in infancy, says Berners-Lee

We had to convince them that this was going to take off and it was a really big thing. And therefore Cern couldn't hold on to it and the best thing to do was to give it away." He said competing technologies, such as Gopher, which was developed at the University of Minnesota, were also offering a method of using hyperlinks to connect documents across computers on the internet. "If we had put a price on it like the University of Minnesota had done with Gopher then it would not have expanded into what it is now. "We would have had some sort of market share alongside services like AOL and Compuserve, but we would not have flattened the world."

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