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Re: Title of the HTML5 document

From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 18:10:42 +0200
Message-ID: <4A1AC302.8040403@danbri.org>
To: Giovanni Campagna <scampa.giovanni@gmail.com>
CC: "www-archive@w3.org" <www-archive@w3.org>
On 25/5/09 17:50, Giovanni Campagna wrote:

> One may say that "web" is not just HTML, browsers, JavaScript and
> HTTP, but looking back at TBL's times, "www" was just the commercial
> name for "HTML over HTTP"

Not really. It was also critical that the original Web allowed .txt, 
JPEG, GIF, audio etc over any of various protocols including ftp:, 
http:, and gopher:. These weren't corner cases, but at the heart of why 
it took off ...

Dan
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