From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Wed Dec 06 2000 - 23:00:41 MST
I misspoke. His comment was regarding HTML, not the Web.
http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~ted/TN/WRITINGS/TCOMPARADIGM/tedCompOneLiners.html
Search for the section headed
TWO CHEERS FOR THE WORLD WIDE WEB
in it you will find:
"The Web is a foam of ever-popping bubbles, ever-changing shopwindows.
"The Web is the minimal concession to hypertext that a
sequence-and-hierarchy chauvinist could possibly make....
"The Xanadu® project did not 'fail to invent HTML'. HTML is precisely
what we were trying to PREVENT-- ever-breaking links, links going
outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins, no version
management, no rights management."
Sunah Caroline Cherwin wrote:
>
> >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. :)
> >
> oooh! and is that quote ... on the web?
>
> (When I conceived excitedly asking for a cite, the irony escaped me ... but
> it would be fun to read if extant.)
>
> --
> www.pobox.com/~sunah +!+ Sunah Caroline Cherwin +?+ www.piclab.com/sunah/
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