Mark Frisse, now of Vanderbilt University, was one of the reviewers of Tim Berners-Lee's original paper presenting the concepts behind the World Wide Web in 1989. Mark describes how he thought that the architecture would not scale, and that Tim's decision to allow "broken" pointers (i.e. violate bidirectional integrity) would lead to a "spaghetti bowl of gotos." Tim's paper was relegated to a poster session, which turned out to be wildly successful. Tim's decision to relax the requirement for bidirectional integrity (allowing 404 not found error) turned out to be one key features for the success of the web. Less