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The Internet was developed in the late 1970s. HTML was developed about 1989, but no public websites till about 1992. I first accessed real email about 1986, but the Web in late 1994 using NCSA Mosaic. I still have the two floppies.
However in the mid 1980s I used Schematic capture with hyperlinks, then learned about Project Xanadu, started in the 1960s. In the late 1980s I played with Apple's Hypercard.
I thought Xanadu was the proper way to do hypertext documents. Certainly the current concept of web sites is very broken as is HTML. You can't decide who links to your site, you can't know what links to your site, you don't know if an outgoing link breaks and the Browser tells a website far too much, including the previous site.
Does Xanadu have the record as vapourware? Though now there is a sort of partial beta. Unfortunately HTML and Web sites has "won", a clunky system intended for internal use with privacy and security as afterthoughts. Malware delivered automatically by 3rd party adverts served by Google. Still the Web and HTML is better than Gopher, FTP and email for public documents.
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