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That's it as I remember. When it was mentioned prior to that, it was considered trivial. People forget that prior to the opening up of the Internet to commercial use, it wasn't a candidate for global hypermedia. The fact of a free distribution on a network capable of distributing immediately and without regard to borders to people without funds (students, researchers, etc.) did the rest. It wasn't a good technology but it was ripe. Tim got the brass ring so he deserves the applause. I don't consider getting it to work across the Internet to be trivial. Anytime I start to believe the hype about the web as the most important invention of..., or how it is fundamentally changing society or enabling real democracy, I read the statistics on the top ten search items of the year and the research on power-law distributions. "Same as it ever was." So do we have to refer to Tim as STimBL now? Seems rather Tolkienesque. len From: Joe English [mailto:jenglish@f...] Michael Kay wrote: > My first reaction was quite different but equally wrong. I thought he > was totally naive to imagine that he could get the world to agree on one > standard for doing this stuff. I still don't know how he succeeded in > grabbing mindshare. Most good ideas fall on stony ground, why didn't > this one? My best guess: it wasn't Tim B-L who got everyone to agree, it was NCSA. Mosaic was a sufficiently compelling improvement over the various gopher clients then in use that everyone switched over. The "standard format" was largely ignored; people didn't create documents for "The Web", they created them for Mosaic.
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