Background Image

The World Wide Web Is Precisely What We Were Trying To Prevent. We Long Ago Foresaw The Problems Of One-way Links, Links That Break (no Guaranteed Long-term Publishing), No Way To Publish Comments, No Version Management, No Rights Management.

-Ted Nelson

Please Wait....
Translating....

The World Wide Web Is Precisely What

Ted Nelson

The World Wide Web Is Precisely What We Were Trying To Prevent. We Long Ago Foresaw The Problems Of One-way Links, Links That Break (no Guaranteed Long-term Publishing), No Way To Publish Comments, No Version Management, No Rights Management.

Views: 7

Topic

More From Ted Nelson

The Paperless Office Is Possible, But Not By Imitating Paper. Note That The Horseless Carriage Did Not Work By Imitating Horses.

The Four Walls Of Paper Are Like A Prison Because Every Idea Wants To Spring Out In All Directions - Everything Is Connected With Everything Else, Sometimes More Than Others.

Let Me Introduce The Word 'hypertext' To Mean A Body Of Written Or Pictorial Material Interconnected In Such A Complex Way That It Could Not Conveniently Be Presented Or Represented On Paper.

The Point Is That These Decisions They've Made Are Partly For Your Convenience And Partly For Theirs And Partly Out Of Stereotypes That They Carry With Them From The Conventions Of The Computer Field.

What We Now Call The Browser Is Whatever Defines The Web. What Fits In The Browser Is The World Wide Web And A Number Of Trivial Standards To Handle That So That The Content Comes.

Trending Author

Keira Knightley

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Category