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"You know how I know Berner-Lee's dream is dead? When I read a long blog post about how fantastic a tool is, and there is NOT ONE SINGLE HYPERLINK TO THE GODDAM
by toyg 5y ago
"You know how I know Berner-Lee's dream is dead? When I read a long blog post about how fantastic a tool is, and there is NOT ONE SINGLE HYPERLINK TO THE GODDAMN TOOL."
"Oh, just google it"
"Yes, but google was not present in the WWW design, was it? And then you have to worry about fakes, clones, phishing sites... The new generations turned the web into an interactive newspaper with more ads."
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- winter_squirrel 5y agoNot much can come off as more pretentious than someone pretending to have a conversation with themselves about how they would win an argument.
- thorin 5y agoHa ha, I was thinking exactly the same thing.
- zekenie 5y agoFair point! Added it
- necovek 5y agoThere was a screenshot showing the URL: I simply typed it in :D Sometimes, even when I google things out, I type the URL in myself to avoid going through multiple redirects on google.com pages and to give me a clean copy-pasteable link right away.
- bachmeier 5y ago> google was not present in the WWW design, was it That's because you were supposed to Ask Jeeves.
- toyg 5y agoNot if you were on a big mountain, enjoying an Alta Vista
- codazoda 5y agoOr, comfortable in your living room getting your coffee from a HotBot.
- dhosek 5y agoOr wrapped up in the web by a Lycos
- fingerlocks 5y agoOr, engaging in some late night bedroom Yahoo with your partner.
- fredland 5y agoAh, much excite at home, as they say.
- doodpants 5y agoBack in the early days there were so few web sites that you didn't even need a search engine; any old Yahoo could tell you what all of them were.
- pjmlp 5y agoGoing in circles around them like a ring.
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- acomjean 5y agoI thought I missed it too. FYI: https://excalidraw.com https://excalidraw.com whew..
- nanodeath 5y agoIsn't the first word of the article a link to the tool? Maybe it was added after your comment.
- toyg 5y agoYes, it was added in response to this comment, as mentioned in one of the replies.