Likes, favourites, tweets, tags and trends - it's a long way from the earliest forms of what is today's internet, and it's been an incredible story between then and now.

This week Luke goes right back to the beginning of networked computer power and explains the science that led from the world wide web to the global social media giants, and the science of how it is impacting us and our world.

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