In 1992, I was looking at a lot of different possibilities. I was under a lot of pressure from people who were rewriting their entire business plans around the World Wide Web. We need something better. The call was for a vendor-neutral forum. The thing that the Web has given the world is interoperability.
Interoperability is something that has just never happened on such a scale.
And if that broke, that would be a big shame. The thing spread largely because I didn't make World Wide Web Incorporated in 1991. If I had done it in 1991, it would have been just another hypertext product, another proprietary product. All the big manufacturers would have come out with lookalikes. But the fact that the specs were open and there was an open process discussing them was why people adopted it so fast.