And then there's all the people who got into computers because of Ted
Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines. I was trying to get the Xanadu
insiders tuned into this weird "SGML" stuff back in '87.
Of course, the later catchphrase from Ted is that the Web was what we
were trying to _prevent_, and to some extent he's right--but that's
another story. :)
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> At 6:02pm +0930 12/6/00, Emlyn wrote:
> >Hmm. Even given exposure to the enabling technology, I'd be surprised if
> >very many people, especially techos, foresaw the incredible
> >commercial/popular environment that the web would become, by say 1995.
>
> Many of us old-timers were espousing that very thing on this very
> list back in 1989! Many of us had been using global networks for
> decades. We already knew the impact that global communications had
> between colleges and branches of government. We just had to wait a
> few decades before the public sector caught up.
> --
> Harvey Newstrom <HarveyNewstrom.com>
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