On 21/11/2010 00:37, James Newton wrote:
> Project Xanadu and hypertext in general was Ted Nelson, not Tim Berners L=
ee.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
>
> Berners-Lee invented HTTP, which is NOT HTML or Hypertext or TCP/IP, all =
of
> which were pre-existing. His contribution was in seeing a way to combine
> them.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
>
>
> Please don't forget Ted Nelson. Perhaps you knew, but I wasn't sure from
> reading that, and I think Ted deserves far more press than he gets.
>
> P.S. They also happen to be members of "my" "church" along with several o=
f
> the founding fathers, and a bunch of other people who could be invited to
> John Galt's valley.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unitarians,_Universalists,_and_Unita=
ria
> n_Universalists
>
> --
> James Newton
> 1-970-462-7764

My email was a bit rambling. I studied Ted Nelson's writings in 1980s,=20
for a Hypertext system I was developing then (distributed OS with=20
persistent documents, no load/save or "files"). I didn't mean to suggest=20
that TBL had any Xanadu connection.

I agree  Tim Berners Lee's major contribution was combining HTML and=20
HTTP. Sadly it falls short of a real hypertext system
1) You can't know what pages link to your page
2) Dead links, but page is still there, just the path or domain changed.

Perhaps Xanadu was too ambitious, or wasn't in the right place at right=20
time. I believe there is some partial implementation now.




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