Alan Kay famously critique World Wide Web (WWW) where HTML is originated. He publicly dislike HTML as followed Things like [HTML] happens when we let physicists play with computer. He stated that HTML is a bad markup language because people who build HTML thinks their way of representing web page is the only way. He mentioned a (older and) better alternative to HTML is to define protocol based on ordered region on a tape — back when tapes were still popular means of storage in 1950’s.

Blog blog TODOBrief Journey from Web 1 to Web 3. connect data (ARPANET) -> connect website (Internet) -> connect ideas (WWW) -> connect people (Web2) -> connect personal server (pub3 & Web5) A creation of WWW jumped start more sophisticated usage of hypermedia. In 1994, WWW’s support for e-commerce was added to W3C standard – an open standard for WWW, 5 years after WWW was proposed for the first time and 1 year after Mosaic was launched.