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I belive that an early beowser, possibly Mosaic, had an edit button. Think of that and the fundamental change of internet philosophy it implies!
by Daub 7mo ago
I belive that an early beowser, possibly Mosaic, had an edit button. Think of that and the fundamental change of internet philosophy it implies!
- hdgvhicv 7mo agoThe original idea behind a protocol which did updates as much as reads was later realised as Wikipedia and similar sites.
- retired 7mo agoHence GET / POST / PUT. The WWW was designed to edit documents directly.
- kolinko 7mo agoYeah, and the original HTTP had PUT and DELETE methods.
- 1718627440 7mo agoJust yesterday, this blew my mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096599 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096599
- Daub 7mo agoThanks for reminding me of this. Used it once or twice to prank co workers.
- WillAdams 7mo agoOne early tool in this space was Navipress (which AOL bought out and made into AOLpress) which is notable for having been used by a certain Tim Berners-Lee to write a book: https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/ https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821987.Weaving_the_Web https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821987.Weaving_the_Web