On 25/5/09 17:50, Giovanni Campagna wrote:
One may say that "web" is not just HTML, browsers, JavaScript and HTTP, but looking back at TBL's times, "www" was just the commercial name for "HTML over HTTP"
Not really. It was also critical that the original Web allowed .txt, JPEG, GIF, audio etc over any of various protocols including ftp:, http:, and gopher:. These weren't corner cases, but at the heart of why it took off ...
Dan
