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- From: Tony Smith <ts@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:00:49 +1000
Just in case anybody interested missed it:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/24/1054214
which starts out:
In a world that increasingly takes the WWW, its pages and the other
documents we exchange in the electronic world as given - and knights
Tim Berners-Lee without an understanding of the pre-WWW background of
stateless client/server document architectures (e.g. Gopher) and
hypertext (e.g. Xanadu) on which he built - there still beavers away a
forgotten figure, Ted Nelson, eager to more fully achieve the original
hypertext vision. In recent communications Nelson says: 'The tekkies
have hijacked literature- with the best intentions, of course!-) - but
now the humanists have to get it back. ...'
Tony Smith
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