Semantic Web archaeology

Recently on Stack Overflow, there was a question asking "Why rdf:Seq and 
not rdfs:Seq?" [1]. I tried to answer the best I could, by digging in 
the old RDF mailing lists, but I am still puzzled about how some terms 
ended up in the rdf: namespace rather than rdfs: (and vice versa). Can 
someone involved in the early days of RDF enlighten us about this?

Nowadays, the duplication of namespaces for RDF terms seems rather 
silly, confusing, and counter productive. Maybe it made sense, back in 
the days...


[1] morning (Stack Overflow user): Why rdf:Seq and not rdfs:Seq? 
Question on Stack Overflow, 5th June 2019. 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56468859/why-rdfseq-and-not-rdfsseq/56763523#56763523
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