==Accessible Authorship and This Article's Bias== 
 1)The WWW was chock full of "easy to use" authorship tools, software, and services before the turn of the millennium.   lets think for 2.3 seconds... Geocities hosting, Live Journal, and a literal avalanche of individual bulletin boards and bulletin board software come to mind.  This is just a sampling of what was available in the 1990s.  There were boatloads of other easy to use, cheap/free, general-public accessible authorship methods that ran the gamut of possibilities.  Wikis and Web 2.0 are BRAND NEW in this regard.  People tend to completely ignore what happened before they embraced the internet when broadband, fast/cheap hardware and software, and button-laden GUIs became pervasive.  2)While I understand that this article is about the WWW, as opposed to the internet in general or a different protocol/network, I think it is inaccurate and misleading to completely ignore the conceptual/intellectual and physical basis upon which the WWW was built:  the public and private/government internet that evolved from the Arpanet and related networks.  As I said, the WWW was conceived as serving a different purpose.  But the conceptual underpinnings of the internet are imbedded in the already existing internet of the time.  The hardware and software underpinnings, also, evolved from preexisting examples that were developed for the Arpanet and later public networks.  The WWW was not invented from scratch.  It was conceived as an evolution, transformation, and synthesis of preexisting ideas combined with the well established public and private internet of the time.  Please add a reference to the history of the Arpanet, hyperlinks to BBS articles, and other related stuff from the period of time in the mid to late 1980s when the public internet was really at its inception.  The bias, btw, is the bias that is so often taken in discussions of the invention of the internet:  that the WWW was invented by the British, and that the WWW is somehow exclusive and bares no relationship in anyway to the Arpanet or public networks of the 1980s. (there is no mention in this article, that every conceivable underpinning of the WWW came from the preexisting inter-institutional and public networks that formed the primordial internet)