we all know about tim berners-lee and bill gates, and steve jobs.course, those people are remarkable. but they have never been alone. they were always surrounded by people and ideas. because making big things requires big communities. that's what is so exciting about technology, it invites so many of us in. to it also makes it so hard see where things come from, and more importantly, where things might lead and could still lead. when we don't see the multiplicity of all of this, out a huge part of the story, a beautiful part of the make it so much harder for all the other versions of the established history to work their versions on our world to make it better. machines can now perform in fractions of a second what would have taken a human computing office many girl years to complete. but for a few centuries, women working together were the hardware. distributed biological machines capable of calculations beyond the powers of any single individual. these calculations catalog the cosmos, they charted the stars, they measured the world. the computer a

which is privately why i am in the internet that probably why i am in the hall of fame, but when tim berners-lee got the technology going, all of these technologies. -- folded in. it was part of that, but the web was better. i tried to get publishers online. i got "the," "the new york ," "ap," i gotrs them all on board by getting these things online, so the open world worked. this is a time when it could have been in the small silos of , aol,nexis or compuserve they were very controlled but we wanted an open environment where everyone could be a publisher. a little bit of wild west. era butkey part of that once that era started going and i sold to aol, i started building the library itself. to -- that, we are trying we architect the web to be more decentralized. can we make a decentralized web? even though you may be blocked in some countries, you still get access to it, or if one publisher goes away, then it is still replicated in other places. a peer-to-peer backend for the web is a new and exciting development that is coming out of some of the same people in bitcoin and other decentralized te

but when tim berners-lee got the web going, all of these technologies folded into the web. the web is better and insight d to get publishers online. i got the "wall street journal," "new york times," reuters, ap, encyclopedia britannica. i got those all on board so the open world worked. this was a time when it could've been in these very small silos of lexis-nexis or compuserve, aol. they were very controlled but wanted an open environment where everyone could get -- although a bit of the wild west so i was a key part in that era. once that era was going and i sold the company to aol, then i could build the library itself. now beyond that, we are trying help, with architect the web be more decentralized. even though you may be blocked in some countries, you still get access to it. or if one publisher goes away, then it's still replicated in other places, appear to beer back in for the web is a new and exciting development -- peer-to-peer backend. some of the same people and bitcoin and other decentralized technologies. can we keep the web architecture itself moving forward

by 1994 tim berners-lee was giving the keynote.t was so clear that nobody would want to overlap both. the more sophisticated systems, like wendy hall's incredible microcosm system quickly became a thing of the past. there's no way for us to know if something like microcosm could have replaced our web just as there's no way for us to know that what would have happened if something like echo had had enough funding to make the transition to the warld wide web and had become our foundational social network. it doesn't stop me from dreaming about it. that's what i mean about the different futures that some of these stories present us with. they demonstrate very vividly how many other paths have laid before us throughout this history, just as many paths still lie before us if we only could look for them. it's important to remember that nothing happens in a vacuum. new technologies don't fall from the sky unbitten. they've merge from a continuum of ideas. the worldwide web could not have existed without the decades of research done by hyp