Atrios points to a great Financial Times column written by James Boyle. As we near the 15th anniversary of the World Wide Web's creation, Boyle reminds us that we should not take the web's existence for granted:
That is a shame, because there are three things that we need to understand about the web. First, it is more amazing than we think. Second, the conjunction of technologies that made the web successful was extremely unlikely. Third, we probably would not create it, or any technology like it, today. In fact, we would be more likely to cripple it, or declare it illegal.
