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Electronic Publishing -  A Short But Eventful History | 
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| 1978 |  Martin's model of a wired society forecasted many aspects and impacts of the information highway as it is envisioned today. |  
| 1989 |  A hypertext project was developed to organize documents at CERN (Berners-Lee). |  
| 1994 |  The World Wide Web was designed to be a pool of human knowledge, which would allow collaborators in remote sites to share their ideas and all aspects of a common project (Berners-Lee). |  
| 1997 |  The Internet today is much more than an active and interactive encyclopaedia, because of the integration of human-to-human discourse (Gaines). |  
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| © Henryette Roth 1997
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