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Re: RE: Tim Bray on "Which Technologies Matter?"

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• Subject: Re: RE: Tim Bray on "Which Technologies Matter?"
• From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@m...>
• Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 10:09:27 -0800
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At 03:10 PM 3/15/02, Mike Champion wrote:
>Also, a factual/historical question -- Wasn't HTML more or less
>"invented from scratch" and SGML used to legitimize it
>post hoc?

The HTML markup vocabulary, as I understand it, was based on the IBM GMLDPS 
(or whatever it was called) that Anders Berglund had implemented at CERN; 
Tim's innovations were HTTP, URLs, and <a>.  The rest of the HTML (a/k/a 
HTML 1.0) markup was based on this simple SGML markup.

~Chris
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Christopher R. Maden, Principal Consultant, crism consulting
DTDs/schemas - conversion - ebooks - publishing - Web - B2B - training
<URL: http://crism.maden.org/consulting/ >
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