The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.

The World Wide Web is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT. We long ago foresaw the problems of one-way links, links that break (no guaranteed long-term publishing), no way to publish comments, no version management, no rights management.

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

Making things easy is hard.

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.