« Berners-Lee’s paper was rejected (« The hypertext community were unimpressed with the web; it looked rather simple, » CERN’s Dan Noyes explains in a post) but he was offered a table where he could demonstrate his World Wide Web to conference attendees. « Only a couple of catches, » Jones writes. « There was to be no Internet connectivity at the conference. And as Tim’s demonstration required a NeXT computer, he would have to bring his from Europe. » » (via World: We Have Lost the First Webpage. Professor: Oh, I Have a Copy of It Right Here. – Rebecca J. Rosen – The Atlantic)