[ih] what is and isn't the web, was Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol

[Miles Fidelman]

On 8/21/16 12:57 PM, John Levine wrote:
>>>> In fact, hypertext specialists thought it was broken;
>> The academics working on hypertext thought that a hypertext system
>> without bidirectional links and some kind of continuous completeness
>> checking (so that dead links would vanish automatically) wasn't
>> useful.
> Ted Nelson sure did.  Indeed, he still does, and he's still trying
> to implement something more like what he had in mind all along.
>
Of course, he's also carrying on in the footsteps of UMich & gopher - 
trying to keep everything he does proprietary.  And worse, it doesn't 
interoperate with anything.  Great ideas, horrible implementations.

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