Alan Kay made scathing comments [1] on the World Wide Web browser (reinventing a broken wheel) at length in a lecture "Normal Considered Harmful" for computer s

Alan Kay made scathing comments [1] on the World Wide Web browser (reinventing a broken wheel) at length in a lecture "Normal Considered Harmful" for computer science students at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. For context: Alan himself invented WYSIWYG at Xerox PARC. He was present at "the mother of all demo's" by Douglas Englebart [9]. Ted Nelson who invented bidirectial hyperlinks 'outside of the file' and Xanadu [6,7] got Alan in touch with his future wife [2] and Alan was there at Apple when Bill Atkinson made Hypercard. He mentions that when he told Tim Berners Lee about the much better previous designs of Douglas Englebart, Ted Nelson and Alan's group at Xerox PARC, Tim was chagrined (that he had not read any of the papers about earlier and much better designs of 28, 25 and 20 years before the WWW browser in 1993). Of course Alan also discusses how the web should have been done. In short, it should be that when you click a hyperlink you load a virtual machine in a secure sandbox of a Operating System Kernel. The virtual machine would then render the (bitmap or vector) pages. Operating System 101, well known in 1965. Of course, Alan's team did implement this (several times). I can demo all this software if you contact me. I also give lectures on this. Email me at morphle [at] ziggo [dot] nl for a video where Alan Kay, Douglas Englebart and Tim Berners Lee meet and talk about this at a forum discussion. You can ask me about anything related to Alan, Ted or Douglas, I maintain an extensive archive with all scientific papers, emails, talks, interviews and lecture video's. Alan, Ted and Douglas worked closely together and where friends. TED's beautiful eulogy [3] for Douglas is a wonderful speech where he bitterly indirectly refers to the ignoring of Douglas' work by Tim. Alan made a demo with Apple in 1987 on what the WWW should be able to do [4,5]. [1] Normal Considered Harmful https://youtu.be/FvmTSpJU-Xc?t=963 https://youtu.be/FvmTSpJU-Xc?t=963 [2] Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festival https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrlSqtpOkw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrlSqtpOkw [3] Ted Nelson's Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMjPqr1s-cg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMjPqr1s-cg [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bjve67p33E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bjve67p33E [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umJsITGzXd0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umJsITGzXd0 [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En_2T7KH6RA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En_2T7KH6RA [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu [8] https://golden.com/wiki/Project_Xanadu-P6JE4 https://golden.com/wiki/Project_Xanadu-P6JE4 [9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY