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> The project is based on the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within intern
by nkuttler 11y ago
> The project is based on the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups.
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Summary.html http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Summary.html
- bane 11y agoso you agree with me, the web is about information, not just vt100 displayable fixed-width text
- nkuttler 11y agoNo, I disagree about your incorrect statement > The web was never about interchange of documents See also http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/ http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/, your perception of what is and isn't viewable in a terminal, and what should be, is strange for somebody who claims to know the web's history.
- bane 11y agoSince the web was never intended to be viewed in a terminal, I stand by my position.
- nkuttler 11y agoYou realize that the web predates graphical web browsers, right?
- bane 11y agoNope, it doesn't. TBL wrote WorldWideWeb along with the rest of the early web stack at CERN, and from the start it included a graphical browser which used the NeXT textclass (a richtext class), which could open anything the NeXT systems could open, which included styles, movies, postscript and sounds. The Web has literally never been about VT100 text document displays. I'm not sure why this is hard to understand. That was gopher. I'm really serious. I swear you young people sometimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb Here, email him yourself and ask away timbl [ a t ] w3.org