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The fathers of the internet revolution urge today’s software engineers to reinvent the web – IEEE Spectrum

“I’m frustrated on behalf of everybody using the Web at the moment,” says Tim Berners-Lee. The current web, as it is, has a lot of problems. The solution? Lets decentralize the web, say some of the people who helped build it in the first place. A report by Tekla S. Perry for IEEE Spectrum. 

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