Tim Berners-Lee: Re: Qualifiers on Hypertext links... 6. August 1991, abgerufen am 28. Juli 2010 (englisch, Usenet Nachricht): „You can also hack it to take a hypertext address and generate a virtual hypertext document from any other data you have – database, live data etc.“
Tim Berners-Lee: Information Management: A Proposal. CERN/W3C, März 1989, abgerufen am 1. August 2010 (englisch): „The system must achieve a critical usefulness early on. Existing hypertext systems have had to justify themselves solely on new data. If, however, there was an existing base of data of personnel, for example, to which new data could be linked, the value of each new piece of data would be greater.“