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< blockquote title =" Reid, Robert H. Architects of the Web: 1000 Days That Built the Future of Business ">... to rectify many of the shortcomings of the very primitive prototypes then floating around the Internet.

Most significantly, their work transformed the appeal of the Web from niche uses in the technical area to mass-market appeal.

In particular, these University of Illinois students made two key changes to the Web browser, which hyper-boosted its appeal: they added graphics to what was otherwise boring text-based software, and, most importantly, they ported the software from so-called Unix computers that are popular only in technical and academic circles, to the Windows operating system, which is used on more than 80 percent of the computers in the world, especially personal and commercial computers.

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