Berners-Lee finished his work at CERN and left, but he returned in 1984 with a more permanent position. His previous work with Enquire had left a mental mark. He envisioned a global information space where information stored on computers everywhere was linked and available to anyone anywhere. There were two technologies already developed that would allow his vision to become reality. Others like Ted Nelson and Douglas Englebar t had furthered Bush's work with their own work on hypertext.
Hypertext allows documents to be published in a nonlinear format.
Hypertext links allow the reader to jump instantly from one electronic document to another. Berners-Lee had already used this format when he wrote Enquire. The Internet is a very general infrastructure that allows computers to link together . Hypertext would allow any document in the information space to be linked to any other document. The Internet would allow those documents to be transmitted.