TED Talks:

• Jonathan Zittrain: The Web is a Random Act of Kindness
• Tim Berners-Lee: The Next Web
• A search query return for TED talks about the Web (worth your exploration)

Some Web history (for your information)

• as we may think
  (a vison of the future by Vannevar Bush in 1945)
• the first mouse
  (Doug Englebart's famous demo in 1968)
• cut & paste & visualize
  (another segment of the same demo which we viewed earlier in the semester)
• who invented the internet?
  (the competing theories)
• Xanadu
  (Ted Nelson's vision of literature, and everything else)
• information from CERN, the home of the first web server & pages, about the early history of the web (good screenshots)
• Tim Berners-Lee's proposal for "an information system showing how information could be exchanged using the now familiar click and link system"
• an archived copy of the first web pages
• a little history of the world wide web (World Wide Web Consortium)