Tim Berners-Lee was the person who envisioned this thing called the World Wide Web. He has a couple of entries in a blog.

I love this comment:

Strangely enough, the web took off very much as a publishing medium, in which people edited offline. Bizarely, they were prepared to edit the funny angle brackets of HTML source, and didn’t demand a what you see is what you get editor. WWW was soon full of lots of interesting stuff, but not a space for communal design, for discource through communal authorship.

In many ways the WWW is a spiral entity. An entity that regularly returns to that original concept of ownership and authorship. Tim Berners-Lee conceptualised the Web as a tool for communication, creativity and sharing. Lots of other people have come up with all sorts of clever ideas and applications (and a few really bizarre ones) that thrive on the interconnectedness of the Web.