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joshuaa@microsoft.com (Joshua Allen) writes:
>This RFC, in 1994, represents a revolution.  This RFC, and the thinking
>which went into it, changed the world*.  It's the reason that TimBL is
>knighted.  By the time the 1998 draft was released, the world had
>already been changed, and bickering about "universal" vs. "uniform" was
>no longer something that would make or break the web.

I guess we'll see such notions survive the URI Zen Zone.

The 'universal' may have been transforming (if, I think, naive and
wrong) in 1994, but now it's just decaying slowly.

My real regret, though, is that I waste so much time talking about
these, so carry on.





 

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