At 11:10 -0800 12/11/06, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
The Web was designed for deployment from the start. Its success was not pre-ordained. There were many rival hypertext schemes that were stillborn.
Yep. I wrote a MS thesis on a hypertext system about 5 years before the WWW as we know it today took off. Even by then I had an extensive list of references to include. The oldest was an article from 1945 "As We May Think." (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush)
Perhaps we should say that "Bush Invented the Web", not Al Gore. ;) -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Edward Lewis +1-571-434-5468 NeuStar Dessert - aka Service Pack 1 for lunch. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf