Then, in a document in another window, you could create a link to the marked page. You could open a document in one window and "mark" it. That's what the WorldWideWeb browser provided. They thought that some kind of user interface would be needed for making web pages and links. It turned out that people were quite happy to write HTML by hand-something that Tim Berners-Lee and colleagues never expected. Today it's hard to imagine that web browsers might also be used to create web pages. The introductory text reads: HyperMedia Browser/Editor, An excercise in global information availability by Tim Berners-Lee WorldWideWeb wasn't just a programme for browsing files. Tim Berners-Lee wanted to create a system that would work across networks so that people could link from a file on one machine to another file on another machine. But nearly all hypertext systems worked on local files. The idea of hypertext preceded the World Wide Web by decades.
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