On Nov 20, 2010, at 5:39 AM, Olin Lathrop wrote:

> As for Apple inventing the web, technically they didn't, but they =20
> did have
> something called "Hypercards" (I may be a little off on the name) that
> preceeded HTML but had some of the key concepts, including links =20
> between
> documents.

I was going to say this (and the other part about internet vs web), =20
but I did a bit of research first.  It turns out that Tim BL was one =20
of the original implementors of hypertext documents, back BEFORE apple =20
did Hypercard.  But then, hypertext was apparently first envisioned =20
back in 1945 (!), and the first implementation of anything hypertext-=20
like was in 68.

The "World Wide Web" is one of those things that combined a lot of =20
ideas and technology that had been floating around for a long time.  =20
Even Gore's claims aren't without some merit, since it was that =20
administration that loosed control/access of the internet to private/=20
commercial entities...

BillW

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