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July 1st, 1993 on the old WWW-Talk mailing list. It was in a discussion with Marc Andreessen (who was still at NCSA) and others concerning whether "WWW documen
by DanielKehoe 16y ago
July 1st, 1993 on the old WWW-Talk mailing list.
It was in a discussion with Marc Andreessen (who was still at NCSA) and others concerning whether "WWW documents" should have two spaces after periods (like typewritten pages) or just one (like books). A few weeks later, we were debating whether web browsers should accommodate Adobe's new PDF format.
It's fun to see how the issues that implemented the web were hashed out on the WWW-Talk mailing list:
http://www.intercom.co.cr/www-archives/1993-q3/index.html http://www.intercom.co.cr/www-archives/1993-q3/index.html
Extra spaces after periods, indeed.