WWW was crap right from the start - it works like a paper pile, chaotic, needs search engines to work. It was made for publishing only. It doesn’t work for anything else except through ugly hacks added on top of it.

The much earlier invention, Memex, was designed for crowd work on all human knowledge. It remembers knowledge and its creation process to be immediately learned from and built upon. It self-organises, integrating added information to the common knowledge tree.

Other earlier inventions superior to WWW are Xanadu Web by Ted Nelson, and Dynabook/Smalltalk by Alan Kay.

The sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen