The article starts by setting the scene, what was going on back in 1990. Then it introduces Sir Tim Berners-Lee and discusses his motivtion for inventing the World-Wide Web. That being as a tool for he and other physicists to communicate information and data around the world. He then went and invented a browser and came up with the name along with his collaborator Robert Cailliam. Most people didn't have the ultra-advanced NeXt computers that he did so he had to simplify his creation to be used by everyone. It took about 3 years until everyone in the world was using it.
The article takes a chronological approach to the laying out the development of the web. I suppose that's the clearest way to outline this. If it took another approach then I'd be wondering about timelines and such. I was more interested in finding out about setbacks to the development of the web. The article completely missed that aspect. According to the article, it was just one positive step after another.
But I did learn something about the invention of the web. That being that the development happened rather quickly. That at some point, they put out there, command line interfaces to the web. When technology advanced among the common people they added mouse and graphics inputs.
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