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concern that Web technology would move west, leaving Europe behind. I knew I had to move to the center of gravity of the Inter-net, which was the United States. The American government could congratulate itself on successful research funding that led to the Internet, and Europe could congratulate itself on taxpayer money well spent on CERN.

I left Geneva, off to MIT. Off to America. Off to the World Wide Web Consortium. And off to a new role as facilitator of the Web's evolution.