From: Emlyn (emlyn@one.net.au)
Date: Wed Dec 06 2000 - 01:32:49 MST
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harvey Newstrom" <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: CONFESSIONS OF A CHEERFUL LIBERTARIAN By David Brin
> Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com> wrote,
> > His 1989 thriller Earth foresaw both global warming and the World Wide
Web.
>
> Spike Jones wrote,
> > Matthew, global warming was old news by 1989. I remember
> > hearing about it when I was in elementary school in the 1960s.
>
> The world wide web was old news to us original arpanet folks.
> Hypertext was proposed in 1965 by Ted Nelson, and was demonstrated
> with a mouse by Andy van Dam and others who build the Hypertext
> Editing System in 1967.
>
> By the time this "prediction" was made in 1989, Apple's HyperCard
> implementation of hypertext had been bundled with Macintoshes for two
> years. Many papers and workshops had been held on hypertext. In
> March of that year, CERN had published its proposal to standardize
> the hypertext mark-up language to provide consistency across all
> vendors.
> --
> Harvey Newstrom <HarveyNewstrom.com>
>
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.
Or maybe lots of people did, and it was just oh, hoh hum, the web, huh,
nuthin special bout that.
Emlyn
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