He does not like talking about the birth of the web much these days. He felt betrayed after Tim accidentally lost the archive (oops) rebuilt everything by himself to the best of his knowledge, left and then claimed nobody at CERN helped him. They still communicate, but once in a blue moon.

He’s more focused on his weird particle physics ideas and the censorship it has received in the past (arXiv at the request of CERN, supposedly). I think the interest for Nostr comes from there.

Web proposal was around 1989 I think…