In November of 1990, two scientists proposed a method of linking documents across a network of computers. Their dream is what we know today as the World Wide Web. In the decades since, the Web has evolved from something constrained to a large desktop in the corner of the room, to something we carry around in our pockets and can never fully disconnect from. It has become a 21st-century Tower of Babel. Marcus has more.

Further Reading

Why the Web Won’t Be Nirvana (Published in 1995)

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