My favorite example of the unexpected practical benefits of primary research is the first paragraph from the original proposal for the web: https://www.w3.org/H

My favorite example of the unexpected practical benefits of primary research is the first paragraph from the original proposal for the web: https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html > This proposal concerns the management of general information about accelerators and experiments at CERN. It discusses the problems of loss of information about complex evolving systems and derives a solution based on a distributed hypertext system.