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I wrote my MS dissertation under TimBL at MIT. I was into semantic web technologies in the late aughts and chatted with him few times about the double-slash and
by bobosha 6y ago
I wrote my MS dissertation under TimBL at MIT. I was into semantic web technologies in the late aughts and chatted with him few times about the double-slash and web nomenclatures etc.
I think this article either exaggerates or misstates his intent. IIRC, his thinking was the double slash was just a continuation of the path operator in *nix and would represent the "hyper" in hypertext.
- tasogare 6y agoIt’s true the semantic web was a far bigger mistake, although he doesn’t seem to be sorry for that yet.
- bobosha 6y agoI really don't think the semantic web was a "mistake" at all. And as much as Sir Tim would hate me for saying this, it was (is) still AI - more correctly Symbolic AI - to collaborate at web-scale. Mind you, back then AI was a dirty word, even at MIT, and we had to couch it as "cognitive computing","distributed intelligence" etc. It is a laudable effort and I still love me some semweb technologies.
- anderspitman 6y agoDon't want to get too far off topic but I'm curious what are your thoughts on Solid?