ACCIDENTAL GENIUS
Aug 20, 2019
3 minutes
Text by KEITH GORDON
In 1989, while working at the research organization CERN, British scientist Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web as a way of simplifying the transfer of information and data between scientists located at universities and institutes around the world. Even he couldn’t have possibly imagined that this tool would go on to impact practically every aspect of human existence in the 21st century, with the majority of its usage for purposes that aren’t scientific in the least.
It’s in this tradition of indirect discovery and creation that Slack cofounder and CEO Stewart
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