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2025-10-17 06:37:43

Starting the fourth chapter "The Rise of the Web" of #ThisIsForEveryone, I am pleasently surprised to find out a librarian — Louise Addis of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) — played an important, supportive role in the very first days of the web.

From page 89 of TBL's "This for everyone": "Estimates vary, but only around 2 million people regularly used the internet in 1991 — approximately 0.03 per cent of the Earth’s population. Most of them were academics, since the internet hadn't yet been formally opened to the public, and the concept of an Internet Service Provider (ISP) was still in its infancy. One of those early users was Paul Kunz, a particle physicist and software developer at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in Me…