Fifteen years ago today CERN released the protocols of the world wide web into the public domain. Occasion good enough for quoting from a BBC interview with Tim Berners-Lee:

Sir Tim predicted that the web’s ability to engender collaboration could one day see the web being used to help manage the planet. “What’s exciting is that people are building new social systems, new systems of review, new systems of governance. My hope is that those will produce… new ways of working together effectively and fairly which we can use globally to manage ourselves as a planet.”

And here you can see copies of the original documents that made the web protocols available for everyone.