What is the Web?

• "Cyberspace" (William Gibson, Neuromancer, 1984)
  
  • ...a network with no central authority
    
  • ...designed to operate while in tatters in case of global cataclysm
    
  • UCLA, ARPA/DARPA,
    Mission: to communicate research, share computer time
    
  • a dedicated, high-speed, federally subsidized post-office
  
  
• Tim Berners-Lee (invented HTML, concept of hypermedia)