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History is more than being a name listed on the web page... That was a turbulent time back in mid nineties with a lot of things going on. You'd have to have bee
by sfphotoarts 17y ago
History is more than being a name listed on the web page... That was a turbulent time back in mid nineties with a lot of things going on. You'd have to have been around and involved back then to really know what happened.
XML is a simplified subset of SGML, which as I stated was an invention of IBM.
Moot these days I suppose. A horrendous 'technology' that has seen its day pass and be replaced by considerably improved markup languages.
- wglb 17y agoEr, you are off on this one. GML was invented by IBM. Tim was involved with SGML, wrote one of the first, if not the first, web crawler, and was a primary force and first listed author on the XML spec.
- mbrubeck 17y agoHere's Tim Bray's own history of the early days of the XML committee: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/02/10/XML-People http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/02/10/XML-People