<p><pre><code>    “At this point, if you mean the web when Tim Berners-Lee
    invented it, right now that web does not exist,” Scott 
    said. “Not really. News organizations kill old articles, 
    YouTube’s old videos go away. And while the Archive and 
    other entities are saving—quote-unquote saving—these sites, 
    even those will go to new URLs. They won’t be in the same 
    place. You’ll have to search for them... There are success 
    stories. But meanwhile, silently, thousands of useful things
    are disappearing. As time goes on, I have even less and less
    hope for how long it will last.
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I can&#x27;t find any evidence of TimBL ever having any particularly grand intentions regarding the WWW, especially not anything in the like of content replication. In fact, if you read TimBL and Robert Caillau&#x27;s 1990 proposal for the &quot;WorldWideWeb&quot; [1], you will find it to be a textbook example of worse-is-better with a limited scope, mostly a way of unifying CERN&#x27;s documents from a physical hierarchy into a minimum viable networked web of nodes. The project objectives were indeed rather humble, and it overall appeared to be a way of bringing the general gist of TimBL&#x27;s earlier hypertext research with ENQUIRE over the by-then established TCP&#x2F;IP and DNS in the absolute quickest way possible.<p>Compare and contrast with Ted Nelson and Xanadu.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;Proposal.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;Proposal.html</a>