If you check out Timbl's proposal for the development of what came to
be called the browser <http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html>
It deals explicitly with Hypertext, and equally explicitly leaves
aside other media -- which corroborates my memory that the first
browsers were all text.
Incidentally, the proposal also includes this statement: "This
division also is important in order to allow the heterogeneity which
is required at CERN (and would be a boon for the world in general)."
Little did he know...
As far as Brewster Kahle...well, the info design and interaction
design that goes into creating a universal, accessible electronic
library encompassing all information and all media has to be worth
*something* :-)
kt
Katie Albers
Founder & Principal Consultant
FirstThought
User Experience Strategy & Project Management
310 356 7550
[email protected]
On Feb 19, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Christian Crumlish wrote:
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Peter Merholz
<[email protected]> wrote:
If you're going to include Tim Berners-Lee, I think you need to
also include
Marc Andreessen, as his innovation of bringing imagery into WWW was
fundamental in making it of broad interest.
I thought the earliest prototype browsers had imagery (as well as
read/write, and note-taking functionality)? I realize this is a
quibble, though and the experience I shared with no doubt many people
on this list was going from www/lynx to Mosaic.
I want to add Brewster Kahle but I can't really justify it.
-x-
--
Christian Crumlish
I'm writing a book so please forgive any lag
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