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Wasn't one of the original Web browsers named as "World Wide Web"? So the analogy doesn't seem appropriate here.
by Nuzzerino 6y ago
Wasn't one of the original Web browsers named as "World Wide Web"? So the analogy doesn't seem appropriate here.
- tdeck 6y agoThe original Web browser was named WorldWideWeb; that's where the name for the web (and our WWW prefix) come from.
- Arathorn 6y agoYes, the first web browser was WorldWideWeb. one of the first mail clients was /bin/mail. the first IRC client was irc. the first jabber server was jabberd. And the first Matrix client was called Matrix Console. Much like all of the above, it sucked - it was a first generation thing I wrote in Angular on the Caltrain the day before we launched Matrix at TC Disrupt 2014. So I'd say the analogy is pretty good. Riot (originally Vector) is a second gen client designed to make Matrix mass market - just like Netscape did for the Web. You can get away with the first crappy experiment being named after the protocol, but beyond that point it's just gauche.