On 11/3/06, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
begin quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:07:28PM -0800:
> On 11/2/06, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >I'm not so sure that the original intent of the WWW was information;
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> See < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web >
Unfortunately, the source makes the assertion suspect. It's like
looking for an unbiased account of the Russian Revolution in the
Our Hero Stalin Memorial Museum, or finding a balanced account of
Joseph Smith by asking a Mormon.
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> On August 6, 1991, Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the World
> Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. This date also marked
> the debut of the Web as a publicly available service on the Internet.
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> "The WorldWideWeb (WWW) project aims to allow links to be made to
> any information anywhere. [...] The WWW project was started to allow
> high energy physicists to share data, news, and documentation. We are
> very interested in spreading the web to other areas, and having
> gateway servers for other data. Collaborators welcome!" ?from Tim
> Berners-Lee's first message
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Stated reasons are almost always something other than real reasons.
I'd think it's more liked to be a case of NIH, or a liking of the
abomination known as SGML, or a "that looks easy, I could do that,
let's kick those americans in the teeth".
OK, if you say so. I will just remind you that the Wikipedia article
seems to fit pretty close to the statements in TB-L's book. Of
course, the book too was written after the fact.
carl
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