Sendall couldn't have been more right. Berners-Lee's proposal, conceived to improve information sharing between universities and researchers around the world, paved the way for the World Wide Web as we know it today.
Countless pundits have followed Sendall in the years since, prognosticating about how the Web will and won't transform society. Not all of them were accurate... and some really missed the mark. Here are five that were dead wrong.
The prediction: Spam will be gone within two years. - Bill Gates, 2004
The prediction: Websites will never replace newspapers. - Newsweek, 1995
The prediction: The Internet... will explode? - Robert Metcalfe, 1995
The prediction: The Web means the end of Big Brother. - Columbia Journalism Review, 1995
The prediction: No one will buy anything over the Web. - Newsweek, 1995
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