If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.

Since the web is totally worldwide, we need a set of behavioural rules, laws they are commonly called, that are accepted worldwide. There is a big difference as to how things are treated in the U.S. and Europe and Asia.

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.

At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.

What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links, like we know today - you see some blue underlined word and you click on it and it takes you somewhere else. That's the simplest definition of hypertext.

Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.

To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.