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On Wednesday 23 January 2002 04:19 pm, Mark Baker wrote: > 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 Not to belittle Roy's efforts, but he was certainly not alone in his efforts from 1993 onward... and I think many of his ideas were just really in a formative stage then. From 1994 onward, many people were feeling the way forward with HTTP... Roy certainly helped a great deal, but helping and saying he invented modern HTTP are two different things (though certain politicians find the distinction hard to make with regards the WWW ;--)). I didn't invent the WWW, HTTP or XML etc. (except some parts of the character model), or claim to have forseen where we'd end up. Personally, I had/have a very different view of where we should be. That said, I *have* been around the block a few times... and have watched this puppy grow into a St. Bernard.
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