It is forgotten that futurists around 1970 assumed that something like the WWW was going to come in the early 1980s;  for instance there was a lot of excitement about two-way communication over CATV system that would not be commercialized until the mid 90&#x27;s.  The real story is &quot;why was it so slow?&quot; rather than the &quot;it happened so fast&quot; that people who lived through it perceived.