Note: Tim Berners-Lee, CERN
March 1989, May 1990

It sat on a shelf for 14 months.  This is quite similar to the best financial proposals not making it in nostr, right now.  It's incredibly easy in centralized decision making to shut things down, or kick them into the long grass.  The reason is that for any OSS project to make it, everything has to go right, so 99% fail.  One thing going wrong, is enough to derail something, and that happens over and over in nostr rn.  Luckily the web made it, we take it for granted today, but it was a chance meeting at a party 14 months later that allowed the project to live, "what happened to that information management proposal of yours?" -- "It's still waiting for approval" -- Send it again.  Tim made a point of writing both dates on it!  The first web site and ANN was in fact 33 years ago in late1991.  

https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html