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You're most likely being downvoted for tone and for lack of any support for your argument. HTML was based on SGMLguid... with one exception. The only radical c

by abalone 12y ago

You're most likely being downvoted for tone and for lack of any support for your argument. HTML was based on SGMLguid... with one exception. The only radical change was the addition of the all important anchor (<a>) link, without which the WWW wouldn't have taken off. [1] Minor detail. [1] http://infomesh.net/html/history/early/ http://infomesh.net/html/history/early/

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prewar networked knowledge-base, pre-Bush: https://archive.org/details/paulotlet https://archive.org/details/paulotlet or google youtu.be Paul Otlet, visioning a web in 1934 biased incomplete list of link implementations pre HTML: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext#Implementations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext#Implementations The reason why WWW has taken off is very well described in: High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars. and has very little, if anything to do with the <a> incarnation, which as you say is a minor detail.