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The World Wide Web project (1993)

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56 pointsdpanah18 comments

I think the most interesting page is, of course, http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Bugs.html

There's technology to enable for most webapps (form processing), and search engines right there. And of course, "Gateways: JANET and DECnet for example" are a "Real need."

Really makes you wonder whether the priority decisions you made today will seem similarly ludicrous in 30 years.

"Really makes you wonder whether the priority decisions you made today will seem similarly ludicrous in 30 years."

My bet is on yes.

This project will never take off.

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/FAQ/KeepingTrack.html

How does www keep track of the available servers? - The resource discovery problem

"In the long term, when there is a really large mass of data out there, with deep interconnections, then there is some really exciting work to be done on automatic algorithms to make multi-level searches." - TimBL

Simple, clean design. This is how I like to see it done.

In the long term, when there is a really large mass of data out there, with deep interconnections, then there is some really exciting work to be done on automatic algorithms to make multi-level searches.

Tim BL

And there still is. Some of my bets would be on semantic (ontology identification and interaction), multilingual/multicultural (IMHO huge), local-machine personalized, further processing integration (local or cloud: visualization / result manipulation / statistics / monitoring), reputation and other metric system integration for result entities.

Check out the source code, old HTML tags

I love how every anchor has a line break. I wonder what browser bug forced them to do that...

There are no <BR> tags in the source, and <DT> is not a line break.

I think he means breaks in the actual source itself? I.e., not occurrences of “<BR>” but occurrences of “\n” ?

Ah.

I would equate that to being the developer's style preference.

I think it's more to do with this sort of thing:

    <A
    NAME=24 HREF="Summary.html">executive
    summary</A> of the project, <A

Looks to me like an attempt at organizing the markup to make it easier to read and edit the source text.

Looks like standard 80-character wrapping to me. I don't see linebreaks on this file, for instance: view-source:http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Helping.html

Header instead of head

dat html ಠ_ಠ

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