Hi Charles.

01-Oct-03 07:40:02, Charles Angelich wrote to Jasen Betts


 CA> 1237d4b41970 tech

 CA> Hello Jasen -

 CA>>> The way it comes back to me it seems that Wozniak and APPLE were
 CA>>> pushing hypertext prior to HTML etc. harder than most. Not sure
 CA>>> whose 'idea' it was but it was being discussed in most computer
 CA>>> magazines for quite some time.

 JB>> they has something called hypercard.... but I expect they sat on
 JB>> the details too much, the people at CERN didn't restrict the use
 JB>> og HTML in the same way.

 CA> APPLE, at the start, was good at knowing a 'good thing' when they
 CA> saw it. At times they followed through and at other times closed
 CA> ranks and smothered the idea.

 JB>> I was playinhg with a reader for the jargon-file (which is full
 JB>> of self-references) about the same time (well maybe a couple of
 JB>> years late :) ) but it got lost when I was out of town.

 CA> How does something "get lost" when you are out of town? ;-)

I was away for a couple of years and someone reformatted my hard disk

 -=> Bye <=-

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