Internet is a purely text-based environment, and Berners-Lee and Cailliau's idea of marrying it to hypertext caused a revolution. But text still remains the most important thing.
Despite British Telecom's failed attempt in 2002 to enforce a patent on hyperlinks, the web has become a big force for change. Every possible permutation of three-character dot-com domains has been registered. The BBC has 43 different translations of its website, while social networking site Facebook has 63.Worldwide, 74bn searches are made each month, and the size of the index held by search engines continues to grow. In 2001, a search for 'search engine optimisation' gave up 12,300 results in Google.
Today the term receives 77.8m. The average number of monthly searches per searcher in the UK is 124, the same as the average number of cups of tea per Briton per month. And although those results are delivered in the blink of an eye, according to worldometers.com, users so far this year have spent 240,000bn hours waiting for web pages to download.
Perhaps it was worth the wait. In the US, one in every eight couples getting married last year met over the internet.
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