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> The only revolution was giving the SGML client app away. No, the revolution was this combination of three relatively simple protocols (HTTP, URL, HTML) which

by tpmx 5y ago

> The only revolution was giving the SGML client app away. No, the revolution was this combination of three relatively simple protocols (HTTP, URL, HTML) which together were incredibly powerful. The SGML crowd never came up with anything like that. They just kept on adding more complexities... Reducing this to "giving away the client app" misses the point of the above so badly.

zozbot234 5y ago
> which together were incredibly powerful Incredibly powerful, but not nearly enough for many applications. We have not comprehensively adopted Linked Data, REST and HATEOAS principles which would extend these protocols to be useful with more than simple hypertext. Many of the public JSON-serving endpoints that currently enable much of the "modern" Web could easily be extended to conformant JSON-LD, which would open up a bunch of interesting use cases.
- tpmx 5y ago
  Quite off-topic. We are talking about the the late 80s/early 90s here.