Maybe.<p>If this was a read-write version, then it&#x27;s easy to mentally box it into a network-backed word processor (since that&#x27;s what it would have been most similar to).<p>The power of the web took quite a few leaps in terms of a distributed effort making it into something new each time. When cast in the original scientific philosophy, it&#x27;s not clear that this would seem any more important than the prodigies, compuserves, and aols that already existed.