Well, that, and the Web was created a bit before the commercialisation and privatisation of the Internet as a whole. Since the Terms of Service of the Internet

Well, that, and the Web was created a bit before the commercialisation and privatisation of the Internet as a whole. Since the Terms of Service of the Internet running on the National Science Foundation's backbones actually prohibited commercial activity, that put a crimp in the style of people who would try to extract money from its usage, don't you think?