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> But this model breaks down because it wasn't designed under the premise that interactive applications would then be built on top of individual websites Heh I
by acidburnNSA 3y ago
> But this model breaks down because it wasn't designed under the premise that interactive applications would then be built on top of individual websites
Heh I was just reading "The Innovators" by Walter Issacson and found this interesting conflict between the inventor of the WWW and the inventor of Mosaic:
> There was something about Andreessen's browser (Mosaic), however, that disappointed Berners-Lee. It enabled rich media for publishing eye-catching pages, but that came at the expense of making it easy for making normal users to be able to write as well as read web pages. With Berners-Lee's browser, any user could edit web pages just as easily as reading them, just like using a word processor. But users of Andreessen's browser had to write the HTML code themselves and upload it. Berners-Lee feared that this might limit the ability to express themselves on the web to those who were technically astute.
- faraggi 3y agoFunny because Andersen also made the choice to use text based pages instead of binary with the same profile in mind- making it easy for users to make stuff.