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As legend would have it, the World Wide Web got underway
when, in 1866 Doris Eccles of Goatleavingstone started
"uploading" her material to local seamstresses by way of a
very early steering wheel, a dubious blood tranfusion
contraption, and furious pedalling.
Much like today, the system worked with binary code, but in
those days it was rather more polite than the cold,
heartless On/Off nature of modern computer language. One
stitch signified "Why, yes, that's splendid," while two
stitches meant "I'd rather not say."
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