and while at it some links to the real origins of the web: For ADD-ers: http://youtu.be/hSyfZkVgasI http://youtu.be/hSyfZkVgasI The story: http://www.archive.

and while at it some links to the real origins of the web: For ADD-ers: http://youtu.be/hSyfZkVgasI http://youtu.be/hSyfZkVgasI The story: http://www.archive.org/details/paulotlet http://www.archive.org/details/paulotlet Long PR story short: RPC was already prevalent, that is how you control(led) your stuff remotely. Like Tim did on his day job. Today, if you'd ask for a NeXT-like toy, you'd be denied were you an average Eastern member of CERN (n.b. western equivalent). As a true westerner, TBL asked for it and got one. Put the gopher link address ptr in the reserved field of the text font properties (where things like bold and italics properties are stored) and voilà. Mix in a simplified SGML for markup (as it was customary back then for typefaces and layout on printers). One could also hire cheap disposable students to actually write the web clients and servers to be cross platform (the web's virtue/value). Would the "web" have just ran on NeXT, it would be long extinct, let alone have taken off. Clicking on text is how you used Oberon or even Genera Document Examiner (perhaps even over the network). It was the spirit of the times. Even Jobs demoed a WYSIWYG client-server application in 5 minutes on the NeXT. What an insult. On linking and hypertext: all post-war era anglo-saxon stuff is spin (including Vannevar and Tim invented the web myths). The real stuff comes from Belgium, as did Tim's boss, btw.