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A poor knock of...which actually worked. And IMHO the web was useful to "ordinary people" from day one, given they could get access to the internet.
by goto11 7y ago
A poor knock of...which actually worked. And IMHO the web was useful to "ordinary people" from day one, given they could get access to the internet.
- goatinaboat 7y agoSure, but Gopher and WAIS and Archie and Veronica all worked too
- goto11 7y agoIndeed! These were some of the technologies TBL attempted to unify in the web through the concept of URL's.
- 72deluxe 7y agoBut does anyone remember trying to use IE2 on Win3.11 or IE3 and having to explicitly type http:// http:// all the time? I actually like seeing the full address instead of the "let's dumb it down instead of educating people" approach modern browser address bars implement (hide everything but the most basic URL). I don't think it was as usable as we like to remember (he did develop it on a NeXT Cube after all, not an average everyday machine), as the spelling-out of domain addresses on the BBC was always a drawn-out lengthy "haych tee tee pee colon forward slash forward slash double-u double-u double-u DOT bee bee see DOT com forward slash..." etc etc etc because it was so new in the 1990s. Of course I do look back in fondness before the unleashing of commercialism on the Internet and it turning into the world's leading cesspit of garbage, tracking and colossal webpages, but that's for another discussion.