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Evolution of the World Wide Web

a historical view and analogical study


Yihong Ding
Department of Computer Science
Brigham Young University
ding@cs.byu.edu


Postlude

An impartial, friendly, honest, and collaborative society is a dream of mankind of all time. Though it is pessimistic to predict the real human society turning into this way sooner or later, the World Wide Web allows people building a virtual society that may hold these characters. The World Wide Web also allows humans living forever (i.e. being immortal). Though our bodies are going to pass away, our thoughts and our activities can be recorded and live forever on the web. When there are no places to find our bodies, the online clones of us can still talk and think, or laugh and weep. And hopefully, they will be humble, kind, peaceful, and love to each other forever instead of continuing the pitiful life when they were real humans.