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Michael Kay wrote:
> My first reaction was quite different but equally wrong. I thought he
> was totally naïve to imagine that he could get the world to agree on one
> standard for doing this stuff. I still don't know how he succeeded in
> grabbing mindshare. Most good ideas fall on stony ground, why didn't
> this one?
My best guess: it wasn't Tim B-L who got everyone to agree,
it was NCSA. Mosaic was a sufficiently compelling improvement
over the various gopher clients then in use that everyone
switched over. The "standard format" was largely ignored;
people didn't create documents for "The Web", they created
them for Mosaic.
--Joe English
jenglish@flightlab.com
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