At 11:10 -0800 12/11/06, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
The Web was designed for deployment from the start.
Its success was not pre-ordained. There were many rival hypertext schemes
that were stillborn.
Yep. I wrote a MS thesis on a hypertext system about 5 years before
the WWW as we know it today took off. Even by then I had an
extensive list of references to include. The oldest was an article
from 1945 "As We May Think."
(http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush)
Perhaps we should say that "Bush Invented the Web", not Al Gore. ;)
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