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The World Wide Web project (1993)

56 points by dpanah 13y ago

goddamnyouryan 13y ago
dat html ಠ_ಠ
dpanah 13y ago
Check out the source code, old HTML tags
- evv 13y ago
  I love how every anchor has a line break. I wonder what browser bug forced them to do that...
  - readme 13y ago
    There are no <BR> tags in the source, and <DT> is not a line break.
    - valleyer 13y ago
      I think he means breaks in the actual source itself? I.e., not occurrences of “<BR>” but occurrences of “\n” ?
      - readme 13y ago
        Ah. I would equate that to being the developer's style preference.
    - jameswyse 13y ago
      I think it's more to do with this sort of thing: <A NAME=24 HREF="Summary.html">executive summary</A> of the project, <A
  - WayneDB 13y ago
    Looks to me like an attempt at organizing the markup to make it easier to read and edit the source text.
  - kulkarnic 13y ago
    Looks like standard 80-character wrapping to me. I don't see linebreaks on this file, for instance: view-source:http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Helping.html http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Helping.html
dpanah 13y ago
Header instead of head
runn1ng 13y ago
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/FAQ/KeepingTrack.html http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/FAQ/KeepingTrack.html How does www keep track of the available servers? - The resource discovery problem
- ErikAugust 13y ago
  "In the long term, when there is a really large mass of data out there, with deep interconnections, then there is some really exciting work to be done on automatic algorithms to make multi-level searches." - TimBL
dpanah 13y ago
In the long term, when there is a really large mass of data out there, with deep interconnections, then there is some really exciting work to be done on automatic algorithms to make multi-level searches. Tim BL
- contingencies 13y ago
  And there still is. Some of my bets would be on semantic (ontology identification and interaction), multilingual/multicultural (IMHO huge), local-machine personalized, further processing integration (local or cloud: visualization / result manipulation / statistics / monitoring), reputation and other metric system integration for result entities.
ianstallings 13y ago
This project will never take off.
kulkarnic 13y ago
I think the most interesting page is, of course, http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Bugs.html http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Bugs.html There's technology to enable for most webapps (form processing), and search engines right there. And of course, "Gateways: JANET and DECnet for example" are a "Real need." Really makes you wonder whether the priority decisions you made today will seem similarly ludicrous in 30 years.
- waster 13y ago
  "Really makes you wonder whether the priority decisions you made today will seem similarly ludicrous in 30 years." My bet is on yes.
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chrisphonk 13y ago
Simple, clean design. This is how I like to see it done.

56 points by dpanah 13y ago

goddamnyouryan 13y ago

dat html ಠ_ಠ

dpanah 13y ago

Check out the source code, old HTML tags

evv 13y ago
I love how every anchor has a line break. I wonder what browser bug forced them to do that...
- readme 13y ago
  There are no <BR> tags in the source, and <DT> is not a line break.
  - valleyer 13y ago
    I think he means breaks in the actual source itself? I.e., not occurrences of “<BR>” but occurrences of “\n” ?
    - readme 13y ago
      Ah. I would equate that to being the developer's style preference.
  - jameswyse 13y ago
    I think it's more to do with this sort of thing: <A NAME=24 HREF="Summary.html">executive summary</A> of the project, <A
- WayneDB 13y ago
  Looks to me like an attempt at organizing the markup to make it easier to read and edit the source text.
- kulkarnic 13y ago
  Looks like standard 80-character wrapping to me. I don't see linebreaks on this file, for instance: view-source:http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Helping.html http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Helping.html

dpanah 13y ago

Header instead of head

runn1ng 13y ago

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/FAQ/KeepingTrack.html http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/FAQ/KeepingTrack.html How does www keep track of the available servers? - The resource discovery problem

ErikAugust 13y ago
"In the long term, when there is a really large mass of data out there, with deep interconnections, then there is some really exciting work to be done on automatic algorithms to make multi-level searches." - TimBL

dpanah 13y ago

In the long term, when there is a really large mass of data out there, with deep interconnections, then there is some really exciting work to be done on automatic algorithms to make multi-level searches. Tim BL

contingencies 13y ago
And there still is. Some of my bets would be on semantic (ontology identification and interaction), multilingual/multicultural (IMHO huge), local-machine personalized, further processing integration (local or cloud: visualization / result manipulation / statistics / monitoring), reputation and other metric system integration for result entities.

ianstallings 13y ago

This project will never take off.

kulkarnic 13y ago

I think the most interesting page is, of course, http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Bugs.html http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Bugs.html There's technology to enable for most webapps (form processing), and search engines right there. And of course, "Gateways: JANET and DECnet for example" are a "Real need." Really makes you wonder whether the priority decisions you made today will seem similarly ludicrous in 30 years.

waster 13y ago
"Really makes you wonder whether the priority decisions you made today will seem similarly ludicrous in 30 years." My bet is on yes.

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chrisphonk 13y ago

Simple, clean design. This is how I like to see it done.