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56 pointsdpanah12y ago18 comments

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dpanahOP12y ago· 4 in thread

Check out the source code, old HTML tags

evv12y ago

I love how every anchor has a line break. I wonder what browser bug forced them to do that...

kulkarnic12y ago

Looks like standard 80-character wrapping to me. I don't see linebreaks on this file, for instance: view-source:http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Helping.html

readme12y ago

There are no <BR> tags in the source, and <DT> is not a line break.

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WayneDB12y ago

Looks to me like an attempt at organizing the markup to make it easier to read and edit the source text.

kulkarnic12y ago· 1 in thread

I think the most interesting page is, of course, http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Bugs.html

There's technology to enable for most webapps (form processing), and search engines right there. And of course, "Gateways: JANET and DECnet for example" are a "Real need."

Really makes you wonder whether the priority decisions you made today will seem similarly ludicrous in 30 years.

waster12y ago

"Really makes you wonder whether the priority decisions you made today will seem similarly ludicrous in 30 years."

My bet is on yes.

runn1ng12y ago· 1 in thread

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/FAQ/KeepingTrack.html

How does www keep track of the available servers? - The resource discovery problem

ErikAugust12y ago

"In the long term, when there is a really large mass of data out there, with deep interconnections, then there is some really exciting work to be done on automatic algorithms to make multi-level searches." - TimBL

dpanahOP12y ago· 1 in thread

In the long term, when there is a really large mass of data out there, with deep interconnections, then there is some really exciting work to be done on automatic algorithms to make multi-level searches.

Tim BL

contingencies12y ago

And there still is. Some of my bets would be on semantic (ontology identification and interaction), multilingual/multicultural (IMHO huge), local-machine personalized, further processing integration (local or cloud: visualization / result manipulation / statistics / monitoring), reputation and other metric system integration for result entities.

ianstallings12y ago

This project will never take off.

chrisphonk12y ago

Simple, clean design. This is how I like to see it done.

dpanahOP12y ago

Header instead of head

goddamnyouryan12y ago

dat html ಠ_ಠ

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