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A simple way to avoid being the next Star Wars Kid
Fifteen years ago, the world wide web was the playground of boffins. Its design reflected the open ethos of those users: it had no central managers, no main menu and no investment in content – indeed, no business plan whatsoever.

Instead, its framers assumed that people would put their own material online, and users would then surf from one site to another, following links on the pages.

Then the first search engines sprang up, which sent digital robots crawling from one link to the next, copying everything they found. The idea was to index the entire web in one place by obsessively following every path from several starting points.


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