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RE: ZDNet Schema article,and hiding complexity within user-friendlyproducts
- From: Dan Brickley <Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk>
- To: Al Snell <alaric@alaric-snell.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 04:26:16 +0100 (BST)
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Al Snell wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Murali Mani wrote:
>
> > corporations to some extent. I have the highest regard for tim berners
> > lee, who had made the web possible.
>
> Kinda by accident, he designed a system for publishing academic papers,
> I thought :-)
the original goals were somewhat broader than that. The 1989 proposal
for the WWW is still online, so you don't need to be a historian :)
http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html
FWIW I tried a quick compare and contrast between this and more recent
work in http://www.w3.org/1999/11/11-WWWProposal/thenandnow
Dan
> But IANAH - I Am Not A Historian.