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From what I read AOL and Compuserve and other commercial services are actually functioning before the World Wide Web..that is why I was thinking if the World Wide Web was not invented, the WAN or Internet would be used in more commercial and communication purposes rather than information purposes and uses interfaces built via a more interactive language(more closer to OTL ASP and PHP) instead of HTML and Online Apps(Apps that rely on the internet) would more likely be invented sooner than later...meaning a more interactive and commercial internet..which means that the internet would be more restrictive and corporate....