Re: links and the diffusion of the web

Dan, Ed,

Also with regards to

Le 23 sept. 2015 à 04:18, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> a écrit :
> On 22 September 2015 at 20:11, Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com> wrote:
>> especially in the context of allowing for broken links, I would really appreciate hearing from you.

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/historical


Nothing much in ECHT90
http://www.w3.org/Conferences/ECHT90/Programme.html

But there's also the old Design Issues as Dan pointed out, which has more « rust »
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/DesignIssues/Overview.html

with some introduction to Topology
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/DesignIssues/Topology.html
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/DesignIssues/BuildingBackLinks.html

Also Working Notes
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/WorkingNotes/Overview.html


Some things can be found in
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

In this paper, 12 November 1990, there are key concepts in terms of linking and system universality and completion. Allows it to grow is as important than allowing it to break. It's not a closed universe:

> The web is also not complete, since it is hard to imagine that all the possible links would be put in by authors.

And

> A link is specified as an ASCII string from which the browser can deduce a suitable method of contacting an appropriate server. When a link is followed, the browser addresses the request for the node to the server. The server therefore has nothing to know about other servers or other webs and can be kept simple.

And

> Making it easy to change the web is thus the key to avoiding obsolete information. One should be able to trace the source of information, to circumvent and then to repair flaws in the web.

— http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/Proposal.html

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