- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: 20 Mar 2002 12:58:42 -0600
- To: Bob Kaehms <bob@kaehms.com>
- Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, site-comments@w3.org, Robin Cover <robin@isogen.com>
[+cc site-comments, with permission]. On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 08:16, Bob Kaehms wrote: > Dan, > In the history of the web, page, http://www.w3.org/History.html, there > was mention of Engelbart and Nelson, but no > mention of Goldfarb. I'm giving a short talk today on XML, and am > wondering why the omission? Hmm... good question. I think TimBL goes into the history of how SGML came to play a role in the Web in his WtW book, but I don't think Tim knew much about Goldfarb when he developed the Web. (But then... I think he learned about Nelson's work later too... hmmm...) One history of the events is given in: The Evolution of Web Documents: The Ascent of XML Dan Connolly, Rohit Khare, Adam Rifkin http://www.xml.com/pub/a/w3j/s3.connolly.html but even that doesn't say much about Goldfarb's role, except implictly, by way of describing IBM's GML stuff (which, I gather, Goldfarb was involved in). My first direct interaction with Goldfarb was a phone call from him thanking me for setting up the HTML validation service (in ~1994, when I was at HaL in Austin). We came to realize we had a lot in common... music, a culture of open exchange, ... . My original exposure to SGML came primary thru comp.text.sgml folk like Erik Naggum, and James Clark's code. I'll have to think about how Goldfarb's role should be integrated into the web history page. Any ideas you have are welcome. > thanks > -Bob Kaehms -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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