The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.
Tim Berners-LeeThat idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.
Tim Berners-LeeThe most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.
Tim Berners-Lee