• To: gtn@r... (Gavin Thomas Nicol)
• Subject: Re: Better is better
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:19:50 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <E16TTnD-00060v-00@s...> from "Gavin Thomas Nicol" at Jan 23, 2002 03:11:46 PM

> > Hmm, wouldn't that be Tim?  It *is* a single application.  
> 
> I'm not sure that Tim saw it that way. I think he, and most people saw 
> it as a lot of servers (standalone applications) that could talk to 
> one another... just as people *even now* see it this way. In

Roy Fielding talks briefly about the early web[1] in his dissertation.
It is my understanding that his contributions (starting in 1993, IIRC)
really brought some discipline to what was previously a bit of a mess.
It's just too bad that he didn't document this until 2000.

 [1] http://www.ebuilt.com/fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm#sec_5_1_4

MB
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