[ih] Memories of Flag Day?

[John Day]

Yes, I am unclear what this has to do with what I said.

Someone was commenting on when hypertext appeared. I offered a fact. Nothing else.

A bit more explanation would help.

> On Aug 18, 2023, at 16:58, Dave Crocker <dhc at dcrocker.net> wrote:
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> On 8/18/2023 1:49 PM, John Day via Internet-history wrote:
>> As for hyperlinks, NLS was a hypertext system by design and demonstrated at NCC in 1968.
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> I tend to distinguish between broad vision, component technology, and systems integration.
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> Visions tend to be long on painting a kind of world and short (and often inaccurate) on details.  Component technology is foundational innovation.  Systems integration puts things together to produce a directly usable capability.
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> The web is a lot more than just links.  It has been argued that it invented no components.  I think that's probably true.  But what it did that hadn't been done before was integrate a particular set of components with a balance of capabilities, usability, and extensibility.
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> Skills and accomplishments at systems integration like this are often undervalued, compared with component innovation.  IMO.
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> d/
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