The mathematical idea that made the web doable

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Starting within the mid-20^th century, the digital revolution ushered within the info age, radically altering the best way info is processed and transmitted. Audio and video, which historically had been analogue, turned digital. Telephones gained extra computational energy than the room-filling machines…