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Good critical overview. My impression is that Ted Nelson came at hyperlinks from a purer information scientists POV, whereas Sir Tim and CERN team were more pra
by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Good critical overview. My impression is that Ted Nelson came at hyperlinks
from a purer information scientists POV, whereas Sir Tim and CERN team
were more pragmatic network engineers. They probably didn't anticipate the
spam problem but likely did see that asking another host to store state
on your behalf wasn't optimal.