The Internet, the story goes, sprang from the labs of government and military scientists who wanted a nuclear-bomb-proof communications network. The World Wide Web came from a software engineer at a quasi-governmental European physics lab. The first Web browser, Mosaic, was invented at the University of Illinois and distributed free. In short, nothing about the Web's origins would seem to make its emergence as a business medium inevitable.

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