Re: Internet analyses (Was Re: IPv8...)
John Levine via Internet-history <[email protected]> 18 May 2026 10:24:44 -0400
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It appears that Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <[email protected]> said: >labour the point, OSI wasn't ready. I'm not saying that Tim didn't >have a wider vision, but he also had users. ... Ted Nelson had been faffing about trying to implement his Xanadu hypertext idea for decades, but never got very far because it was much too ambitious. Tim built what's pretty much the implementable subset (i.e., one-way rather than two-way links) and that's the Web. Unlike its predecessors it worked, he had users that liked it, and here we are. R's, John -- Internet-history mailing list [email protected] https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history - Unsubscribe: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/9b6ef0621638436ab0a9b23cb0668b0b?The%20list%20to%20be%20unsubscribed%20from=Internet-history