If the WWW were compared to a library, the “books” on its shelves would keep changing their relative locations as well as their sizes and names. Individual “pages” in those publications would be shuffled ceaselessly. Finally, much of the data on those pages would be revised, updated, extended, shortened or even deleted without warning almost daily.”
‘Today’s WWW, Tomorrow’s MMM: the Specter of Multi-Media Mediocrity”, T. Matthew Ciolek, in Educom Review, Sequence: Volume 32, Number 3, May/June 1997 (http://www.educom.edu/web/pubs/review/reviewArticles/32323/html)