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You can read the original proposal here: https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

• doomlaser 10y ago
  That's a great read. I didn't realize Bill Atkinson's HyperCard preceded Tim Berners-Lee's proposal by a few years, or that Berners-Lee had referenced HyperCard directly in it. The applications of hypermedia were clearly in the ether in thay era, but that document certainly pulls a lot of the threads together.
  • cortesoft 10y ago
    Oh man, HyperCard was my childhood. I made SO MANY games in it.
  • TheGrassyKnoll 10y ago
    Wow, I'd never heard of it. Those old Apples had some cool shit I missed out on. "HyperCard was created by Bill Atkinson following an lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) trip." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard
    • wallace_f 10y ago
      Jobs criticized Gates saying he'd be a better product designer had he spent more time exploring individual pursuits such as what Jobs did--spirituality and psychedelics.
• kahirsch 10y ago
  I love how the announcement[1] on Usenet of the first release of the "WorldWideWeb wide-area hypertext app" contains a sentence that seems sort of unlikely and almost arrogant, yet within four years had proved to be a prophetic understatement. > This project is experimental and of course comes without any warranty whatsoever. However, it could start a revolution in information access. [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.next.announce/avWAjISncfw https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.next.announ...