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All the fun of the festival can be enjoyed via your computer screen this year, says PETER FROST

NEARLY two centuries ago in the 1830s, six farm workers in west Dorset formed a trade union. That single invention would go all the way round the world.

In 1989 a British scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, invented the world wide web. 

Originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world, it has now grown to be a diverse network for all sorts of information exchange.

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