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We had gopher and SGML before and independently of CERN. The internet was just starting to take off; dial-up modem BBS emigres were getting shell accounts at e

by efitz 4y ago

We had gopher and SGML before and independently of CERN. The internet was just starting to take off; dial-up modem BBS emigres were getting shell accounts at early ISPs around that time (I know; I had such an account and worked at such an ISP). Just because TBL happened to work at CERN and have a need for hypermedia, doesn't mean that we wouldn't have the WWW in approximately the same shape in approximately the same time frame without CERN or TBL.

LargoLasskhyfv 4y ago
In an alternative timeline we could have had [1] http://www.art.net/studios/Hackers/Hopkins/Don/hyperlook/index.html http://www.art.net/studios/Hackers/Hopkins/Don/hyperlook/ind... [2] https://donhopkins.medium.com/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-goodnews-99f411e58ce4 https://donhopkins.medium.com/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-go... (with screen shots) [3] https://libarynth.org/hyperlook https://libarynth.org/hyperlook (larger screenshots) based on [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS running atop of whatever, maybe even [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project & [6] http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/homepage.html http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/homepage.html instead of the bloat we have now.