You canโt propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.
Tim Berners-LeeThe story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.
Tim Berners-LeeThe amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.
Tim Berners-LeeIt was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.
Tim Berners-Lee