"The web is like a white sheet that we're holding up," Sir Timothy Berners-Lee told a Congressional subcommittee this morning. "And all these different systems are projecting onto it." That universality—the ability for disparate hardware, software, and languages to coexist in the same medium—has been one of the drivers of the Web's massive growth in the last decade, along with the availability of open and royalty-free standards that make such universality possible.
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