Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1990.
He forgot to include forms.

A 24-year-old graduate student in Berkeley fixed that.

Every time you fill out a web form and click 'Submit', you're invoking over a century of innovation: a keyboard layout from 1878, character encoding designed in 1963, a network whose first message was "LO" because the system crashed before "LOGIN", and display technology that evolved from blinking lights and punch cards to pixels you can actually see.

This is the *very fast* story of how we got here. It's a love letter to the decades of engineers, hackers, and grad students who made it possible for you to type your email address into a text box and click a button.

The mundane is miraculous. Let's trace the miracle.