In my earlier posting, I forgot to mention
that the new Alexandrian Library could be
fittingly dedicated to the person who
actually tried to make the Internet be such a noble thing.
He even got as far as getting institutions like the
United States Department of Defense to officially use
his program -- but when he died, all was lost.
Yuri Rubinsky
( See Yuri's obituary, from The Globe and Mail, Toronto:
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/yuriObit1.html )
Yuri created a computer program: "SoftQuad Panorama",
produced and distributed by Yuri's Toronto software
company, SoftQuad,
which had as one of its functions, to implement
"SGML on the Web" (Yuri wrote a book by that title,
which is probably still and will forever will remain out
of print, but I would urge all computer persons to get
a copy by any means possible!).
Yuri was also committed to making the internet
accessible to persons with various handicaps (there is
the appropriately named Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation).
O Bill Gates! Could you aspire to stand on the
shoulders of a giant and carry on Yuri's work?
Je me souviens
\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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