> It's a visionary hypertext project that doesn't really work yet, but the people behind it are happy to dispense snarky quotes about the how the web we all use

> It's a visionary hypertext project that doesn't really work yet, but the people behind it are happy to dispense snarky quotes about the how the web we all use is a poor substitute because it's a “bizarre structure created by arbitrary initiatives of varied people and it has a terrible programming language”. This is a bit like describing Galileo as "the jackass who wouldn't shut up about heliocentrism despite having no answer to the stellar parallax objection". By no means has he ever been right about everything, and he has been his own worst enemy in several ways, but ...