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I was being pretty harsh, I'll admit, a bad habit. I was just irked at the opening assertion that "élite hypertext thinkers" and "computer savvy" people despis
by jasonm23 12y ago
I was being pretty harsh, I'll admit, a bad habit.
I was just irked at the opening assertion that "élite hypertext thinkers" and "computer savvy" people despised it.
Far from it, they were the only people on it.
- farnsworth 12y agoThat's actually true, at least according to Tim Berners-Lee's book. Hypertext was nothing new when the WWW came around and other systems were more powerful.
- jasonm23 12y agoThe drama attached to "despised" is not true however, and the features lacking, ie. Editing in a browser or "who has linked to my page" were not of overwhelming concern. The author is simply attributing features which seem personally important to them/journalists, as the most pressing concerns of the people making/using the web at the time (early 90s) I was on Usenet virtually every day keeping an eye on discussions on SGML vs HTML, when the web was in its infancy. Certainly consensus was not always smooth and non-controversial. But to say anyone (who wasn't simply trolling) despised HTML, let alone the "èlite", is utter nonsense.
- tagawa 12y agoThanks for taking the time to clarify.