Where did it go wrong? When Tim claimed he had accidentally lost the archive of development and rebuilt everything to the best of his knowledge. Claiming nobody at CERN helped him… not even the person who got him the funding, and not the person who helped him with code. Or maybe CERN not believing in the web and then try to claim it (the next station Tim was using got thrown to the trash), or maybe when W3C got hijacked by Google and co….