Clear Quote by Tim Berners-Lee

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very…

— Marc Andreessen

The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the…

— Douglas Adams

To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.

— Robert Cailliau

The trajectory of the Web 2.0 era was not inevitable - it was instead shaped by a broad range of policy choices.

— Lina Khan

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

— Clement Mok

And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic,…

— Chris Anderson

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

We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet…

— Robert Cailliau

I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical factors that…

— Bill Gates

When it broke out in the mid 1990s, the web was society's first at-scale digital artifact. It spread in orders of ten, first thousands,…

— John Battelle

I also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions of dollars…

— Dave Barry

The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that. It's in its open nature, and…

— Matt Mullenweg