After Thoughts

It is hard to make predictions about the future of the World Wide Web, but it is evident that the Web today plays a large role in many peoples' lives and has opened up a door to more information, entertainment, and publishing possibilities. One can even buy their favorite CD over the web and have it on their doorstep the next morning, or watch their favorite band perform live 1,000 miles away through their browser and related audio/video technology.

Hopefully you have enjoyed this background history of the World Wide Web and have gained an understanding of how the early ideas of hypertext influenced information technologists of the future, and how the development of a national communications infrastructure permitted the World Wide Web to exist. While Bush's original view was of a simple information system based on personal associated selection, many today argue that the World Wide Web has become anything but that. Moreover, they believe that the Web has become too complicated, and unorganized due to an overload in information and number of servers and hosts. What do you think?