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Wow. What's with the lag in some of the messages just now being delivered from the list? This on is 5 days old. -- Joseph W. Shaw - [email protected] Freelance Computer Security Consultant and Perl Programmer Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am." On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, George Herbert wrote: > > Randy Bush <[email protected]> writes: > >>> Now that all these folks have laid claim to inventing the Internet, > >>> I wonder who will take the credit (blame?) for inventing the web? > >> Berners-Lee ?? > > > >indeed, tbl deserves much credit for html and the client/server model and > >implementation. > > > >but hypertext, links, etc. were described by vanevar busch (sp?) in 1948. > >undoubtedly the sociopaths of the time excoriated him for it. > > ...and were already in use in gopher and archie, though not to > the same ease of use and multimedia expandability, at the time tbl > did html/http. I spent a couple of years thinking html wasn't > really going to be much of an improvement; it took until I saw > a running Mosaic to really see it sink in. In a way, Andreesen > and the rest of the uiuc mosaic team deserve a good chunk of > the "web" implimentation credit. > > >From what I can tell, most of what the Web is (and a lot more) > were prototyped and/or predicted in Xanadu, which never took > flight but seems to have inspired a lot of people towards thinking > about things that became the web. So perhaps a bit of credit to > Nelson and the others there, though they really established the > standard in vaporware... > > #insert <stdcollaborationwasgoodthingfornet.h> > > > -george william herbert > [email protected] > >
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