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Anybody notice Guido van Russum commenting two messages into that chain?

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0184.ht...

from datetime import TimeMachine

Worse is better:

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0257.ht...

_Works_ is better. "Functional now" beats "theoretically great but not quite usable yet".

Speaking of that, anyone heard from Arc recently?

A 'works now' version would be nice, release the 3000 version later.

Fascinating reading the entire discussion thread. Andressen proposes a simple tag for embedding images and right away everyone else makes more complicated proposals. Tim Bernes-Lee himself suggests only embedding icons in links. Soon the thread devolves into a discussion on embedding all kinds of media. Think of how boring the web would be if some of the more complicated schemes in that discussion had prevailed over IMG SRC.

Has it really been 14 years? Boy, time flies.

"No closing tag": nice, I wonder how (non-X) html became so unruly ;)

So old school, I love it.

Origin of the IMG tag