Dylan Beattie — The web that never was

The story of the web is a story about freedom. It’s a story about information, breaking down barriers, and creating new ways for people to communicate, collaborate, and share their ideas. It’s also a story that has as much do with marketing, money, and meetings as it does with research and innovation. It’s a story of mediocre ideas that succeeded where brilliant ideas failed, a story of compromises, rushed deadlines, and last-minute decisions. And it could so easily have been very, very different. What if