That was almost Sir Howard then if the damn users had understood how=20
good it was.... ;-)

/Ake

Howard Winter wrote:

>Bill,
>
>On Mon, 2 May 2005 20:20:40 -0700, William "Chops" Westfield wrote:
>
> =20
>
>>...<=20
>>Looking back, it's a bit amazing how many times something very like tod=
ay's
>>web was ALMOST invented.  Plato, Dynabook, hypertext, assorted email co=
nferencing
>>systems.
>>   =20
>>
>
>I set up a very simple hypertext system in 1987, because the whole progr=
amming department was being made=20
>redundant and the operators who had to use my systems couldn't ask for h=
elp after we'd gone, so I wrote a=20
>quick & dirty help system for them, using hypertext links (I'd just hear=
d of the idea and it wasn't hard to=20
>implement).  This was on Datapoint systems, text-only.  I'm not sure how=
 useful they found it - time ran out=20
>before much actual content was put into it.  Was it really another seven=
 years before HTTP came along?
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>Howard Winter
>St.Albans, England
>
>
> =20
>


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