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"The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the
by kolme 10y ago
"The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs."
-- Alan Kay
That quote is pretty unfortunate. I guess nobody's perfect.
- jarmitage 10y agoKay is bang on. 1. http://worrydream.com/TheWebOfAlexandria/ http://worrydream.com/TheWebOfAlexandria/ 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot 3. Comment elsewhere in this thread about how we have been forced into turning a document system into a VM.
- leoc 10y agoHe's absolutely right, and also completely wrong. It's like listening to the blind men argue about the elephant. "It's a particle!" "No, it's a wave!" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2119057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2119057