For an excellent first hand history of the Web - and a linked data proposal which seems to share many of the simple, scalable properties of his original invention - see Tim Berners-Lee's Feb 2009 TED Talk on the 20th anniversary of the Web:
Some comments on this talk's comment thread suggest that it's inappropriate for TBL to take credit for inventing the Web. I replied:
I believe that TBL is typically modest and accurate in saying he invented the Web. http, the SGML-based definition of HTML, the URL protocol were quite literally his individual invention - in concept and reduction to practice. Almost every concept of value on the Web: search engines, browsers, notification is built over this simple, open, highly scalable structure.
TBL does NOT claim to have invented hypertext or the underlying and pre-existing internet protocols which he used very effectively. He quite intentionally made an inspired set of tradeoffs. I suggest paying very careful attention to his linked data proposal.
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