In the original web of the 1990s information was shared as webpages or documents that could be understood by humans. Via hyperlinks, these linked to other webpages or documents anywhere on the web. Servers and desktop computers processed or displayed all this information but didn't understand them. For example, a computer could tell that a particular text is a heading or another text is in italics. It didn't know that the heading is actually the title of a blog post or that the text in italics is the author's name.