[ih] The web as wind and whirlwind? (was Re: History from 1960s to 2025)

Dave Crocker dcrocker at bbiw.net
Mon Dec 22 20:28:17 PST 2025


On 12/22/2025 7:45 PM, John Levine via Internet-history wrote:
>> The web permits output of content anywhere along a sequence.  This is
>> not a trivial benefit, in terms of UX.
> My recollection is that the early web was text and links, like Ted
> Nelson's hypertext.  The embedded images were added a few years
> later in Mosaic.


Not what I encountered, by the time I was looking.  Had to be html. I 
think Mosaic was already around by then.

d/

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