“[Of the web] It's massively successful. It is trivially simple. Massively successful like karaoke - anybody can do it.”

—  Ted Nelson

BBC News Interview, "Visionary lays into the web" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1581891.stm (2001)

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