BernersLee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten years to nurture his slow hunch about a hypertext information platform.
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Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837 but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didnt appear for more than a hundred years.
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Legendary innovators like Franklin Snow and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualitiesa certain quickness of mind unbounded curiositybut they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.
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