[ih] Internet analyses (Was Re: IPv8...)

[Bob Purvy]

A little-known fact is. Ted worked at DataPoint for a couple years. It
wasn't a good fit, as I understand 😀

On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 7:24 AM John Levine via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> It appears that Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <
> brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> said:
> >labour the point, OSI wasn't ready. I'm not saying that Tim didn't
> >have a wider vision, but he also had users. ...
>
> Ted Nelson had been faffing about trying to implement his Xanadu hypertext
> idea
> for decades, but never got very far because it was much too ambitious. Tim
> built
> what's pretty much the implementable subset (i.e., one-way rather than
> two-way
> links) and that's the Web. Unlike its predecessors it worked, he had users
> that
> liked it, and here we are.
>
> R's,
> John
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