BBC NEWS | Technology | Web in infancy, says Berners-Lee

h/t to Slashdot for this one, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the individual credited with inventing the Web, claims that despite Web 2.0, the web is “still in its infancy,” which is welcome news to those of us that have futurist aspirations.

One of the niftiest bits is the recollection by Berners-Lee colleague Robert Cailliau as to what should be charged for “the Web:”

“Cailliau helped draw up one of the early technical proposals for the web and later helped convince the directors at Cern to ‘give the web away.’

‘We had toyed with the idea of asking for some sort of royalty. But Tim wasn’t very much in favour of that… If we had put a price on it like the University of Minnesota had done with Gopher then it would not have expanded into what it is now.’

‘We would have had some sort of market share alongside services like AOL and Compuserve, but we would not have flattened the world.’”

Link to BBC article