Tim Berners-Lee Predicts… the Web?

I was checking out first webpage ever created, by Tim Berners-Lee, and found an interesting page where he outlined the potential uses of “hypertext nodes”, as he called them. At first I thought it was interesting that he did not consider a consistent navigation between nodes, but then that was easily overshadowed by his accurate prediction on how web might be used:

Here are some of the many areas in which hypertext is used. Each area has its specific requirements in the way of features required.

• General reference data – encyclopaedia, etc.
• Completely centralized publishing – online help, documentation, tutorial etc
• More or less centralized dissemination of news which has a limited life
• Collaborative authoring
• Collaborative design of something other than the hypertext itself
• Personal notebook

And now we know that every single of one these areas has gone through radical changes.