https://www.cnet.com/news/as-the-web-turns-30-its-creator-tim-berners-lee-offers-a-message-of-hope-for-its-future/

"Given how much the web has changed in the past 30 years, it would be defeatist and unimaginative to assume that the web as we know it can't be changed for the better in the next 30," he said. "If we give up on building a better web now, then the web will not have failed us. We will have failed the web."

It was March 12, 1989, when Berners-Lee, who was working at CERN, published "a universal linked information system" to help academics from across the globe run a complicated particle accelerator. Since that day, the web has evolved to allow billions around the world to connect to the internet, and with each other.