- From: Danny Ayers <danny666@virgilio.it>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:25:11 +0200
- To: Nick Gibbins <nmg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Cc: Miltiadis Lytras <mdl@eltrun.gr>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org, www-annotation@w3.org, acl@opus.cs.columbia.edu, kaw@swi.psy.uva.nl, daml-all@daml.org, ontoweb-list@www1-c703.uibk.ac.at, seweb-list@www1-c703.uibk.ac.at, irlist-editor@acm.org, ontology@fipa.org, ontology@cs.umbc.edu
Nick Gibbins wrote: >While I have some sympathy with his cautious attitude towards the Semantic >Web, Sowa misses the rich history of hypertext systems that the WWW draws >on. A different characterisation of the growth of the Web might be: > > 1. In 6 years (1989 to 1995) with some hype and not > insignificant EU and US funding, the WWW evolved from > Tim BL's original proposal to a widespread but simple > system which is less advanced in certain ways than > previous hypermedia systems, such as the Hypertext > Editing System, Xanadu, NLS, OWL-Guide and Hypercard > > Heh, a little cynicism goes a long way ;-) btw, did anyone happen to save a copy of Ted Nelson's "XML is Evil" piece? http://ted.hyperland.com/XMLisEvil.html Cheers, Danny. -- Raw http://dannyayers.com
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