As the Web comes closer to 30 years (a generation) as a person who wrote #HTML prior to the W3C's formation, I made all the terrible mistakes and spread some beliefs repeated so often many folks and I correlated to truths but weren't. Despair, self-blame, blame? Recently quashed.

The reason is because we all come to Web from such diverse skills, interests, educational and professional pursuits. That we scaled to anywhere infrastructure and access to Web exists to meet needs in a global pandemic is our triumph! Early evolution always moves fast and varied.

The early days of the web were indeed a triumph. I created my first website in 1993 and the next few years were magic. And the work by you and others in those early years was instrumental.