Cool stuff. However, I'd say the web has done well because of the simplicity
of html coding (ducks rotten fruit). Really, it's pretty easy to hack
together a half-baked webpage. I'd reckon most successful mass stuff like
this is probably just as basic.
Emlyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael M. Butler" <butler@comp-lib.org>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 3:30 PM
Subject: Correction Re: Foreseeing the Web, was Re: CONFESSIONS OF A
CHEERFULLIBERTARIAN By David Brin
> I misspoke. His comment was regarding HTML, not the Web.
>
>
http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~ted/TN/WRITINGS/TCOMPARADIGM/tedCompOneLiners.htm
l
> Search for the section headed
> TWO CHEERS FOR THE WORLD WIDE WEB
> in it you will find:
> "The Web is a foam of ever-popping bubbles, ever-changing shopwindows.
>
> "The Web is the minimal concession to hypertext that a
> sequence-and-hierarchy chauvinist could possibly make....
>
> "The Xanadu® project did not 'fail to invent HTML'. HTML is precisely
> what we were trying to PREVENT-- ever-breaking links, links going
> outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins, no version
> management, no rights management."
>
> Sunah Caroline Cherwin wrote:
> >
> > >And then there's all the people who got into computers because of Ted
> > >Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines. I was trying to get the Xanadu
> > >insiders tuned into this weird "SGML" stuff back in '87.
> > >
> > >Of course, the later catchphrase from Ted is that the Web was what we
> > >were trying to _prevent_, and to some extent he's right--but that's
> > >another story. :)
> > >
> > oooh! and is that quote ... on the web?
> >
> > (When I conceived excitedly asking for a cite, the irony escaped me ...
but
> > it would be fun to read if extant.)
> >
> > --
> > www.pobox.com/~sunah +!+ Sunah Caroline Cherwin +?+
www.piclab.com/sunah/
>
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