I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for ages, but in the back of their mind they’ve got a wonderful long-term plan.

When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.