The Internet and the Web did not have to exist.  They come to us courtesy of
misallocated defense money, skunkworks engineering projects, worse-is-better
engineering practices, big science, naïve liberal idealism, cranky libertarian
politics, techno-fetishism, and the sweat and capital of programmers and
investors who thought they'd found an easy way to strike it rich.

	-- Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby, RESTful Web Services, 2007.