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He didn’t invent anything either, though. www is just a less-than-half implementation of Xanadu. EDIT: To be clear, I don’t intend that as a knock against Sir
by ab5tract 1y ago
He didn’t invent anything either, though. www is just a less-than-half implementation of Xanadu.
EDIT: To be clear, I don’t intend that as a knock against Sir Berners-Lee. But the post I’m responding to invokes a false dichotomy.
- mettamage 1y agoThere were more systems out there, not just Xanadu.
- ab5tract 1y agoAll of which were similarly fractional implementations of Xanadu. Ted Nelson coined the term hypertext in the 60s.
- makapuf 1y agoTurbo Pascal help was using hypertext. Many people were exposed to it by the 80s
- ab5tract 1y agoAgain, all of this comes from Ted Nelson. He also had philosophical antecedents, but in terms of software it was his dream of Xanadu that was the first hypertext system. However, it’s worth pointing out that every attempt at Xanadu (under the name Xanadu) thus far has also turned out to be a fractional implementation of Nelson’s dream.
- dctoedt 1y ago> Sir Berners-Lee Nit: The Brits say "Sir Tim." </pedantry>