Historical Influences
Let's take a look back at the genesis of the Web. How did it start? It was the combination of a document format, HTML, and a protocol, HTTP, that enabled scientists to share documents in a standard fashion and to link those documents together. This was nothing new. We had a myriad of document formats: WordPerfect, Word, or even LATEX. The problem was that none of these document formats was interoperable. The guy who used WordPerfect couldn't read the LATEX documents, and vice versa. An interoperable document format alone, however, wouldn't solve the problem. A way also had to exist for scientists to discover papers published by other colleagues. This was done initially by placing hyperlinks into the document to enable navigation ...
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