From experience: linking available resources and technologies to create a solution for document sharing—the early years of the WWW

We live and work in an era when seemingly every waking minute brings an invitation to visit yet another site on the World Wide Web. Inundated with calls to check out www.whatever.com, we can easily lose sight of the fact that the birth of the Web is part of our very recent history. And notwithstanding the proliferation of personal and corporate vanity pages on the Web, this world of hyperlinks and hot spots has brought about dramatic changes in the means by which many individuals and organizations communicate, work, and trade. For new-products professionals interested in the processes that give rise to radical innovations, what lessons can be learned from the development of the World Wide Web?