Coming together Quote by Robert Cailliau

The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready.

— Matt Mullenweg

The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that…

— Alan Kay

The Internet didn't become usable until Netscape because that gave the average person a user interface that was intuitive, simple, friendly - this made…

— Brock Pierce

Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could use it, and her grandchildren could use it.…

— Thomas Friedman

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

— Tim Berners-Lee

With the appearance of communications networks and interconnected computers, we got the world wide web, and it changed the lives of most people, I…

— Marvin Minsky

[Internet] is kind of like a hammer. The technology itself doesn't determine how its used. It depends on the social, cultural and economic context…

— Noam Chomsky

People - especially the geeks who created it - have tended to look at the Internet as something that's hermetically sealed: there's the Internet…

— Alex Steffen

The web's earliest architects and pioneers fought for their vision of freedom on the Internet at a time when it was still small forums…

— Jenna Wortham

We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get…

— Tim Berners-Lee

We look at the Web as being our basic power plant, kind of like electricity, so the Web and communicating in this fashion is…

— Ted Leonsis

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect-to help people work together-and not as…

— Tim Berners-Lee