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 From: Bob Wyman [mailto:bob@w...] >Didn't Apollo's machines have a distributed file system? Yessir. We were building hypertext systems using SGML in the 1980s on the Apollos complete with the Context authoring tools and scripted harvesting of content all being published to a Write Many Read Many disk. An obvious no-brainer except for the SGML because WYSIWYG was king and its followers were at war with the markup community. Had HTML not been successful, it is possible the markup meme would have been fodder for rediscovery instead of reproduction. >My first impression of TB-L's URL's was that they were simply >a way to bring the equivalent of VMS file names to UNIX. My impression of URLs was the same as yours. The timing was that the Internet had just been released to public use, and the vast majority of homes didn't have PCs just as they became affordable. The web gave the homeowner a reason to buy them: free content. It wasn't innovation; it was timing and shrewd choices plus getting college students to do the heavy lifting. But put it all together and it was successful, so STimbl gets the credit, the accolades, and the burdens. If you want to see another domain where history blew it, look at the history of modern logic and mathematics. John Sowa writes long and lovingly on that topic. len 
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