Re: Internet analyses (Was Re: IPv8...)
Bob Purvy via Internet-history <[email protected]> Mon, 18 May 2026 08:13:32 -0700
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A little-known fact is. Ted worked at DataPoint for a couple years. It wasn't a good fit, as I understand 😀 On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 7:24 AM John Levine via Internet-history < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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