Gregory's Server@book @impactology This was the Hypermedia '91 conference. Mark Frisse made the decision to reject the paper.
https://hapgood.us/2015/04/21/that-time-berners-lee-got-knocked-down-to-a-poster-session/
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 @skry @robinadams @book @impactology It's really interesting to me that theorists of a field would be witnessing an implementation massively taking off in practice and yet not embracing it because it did not properly conform to the theory  @tomw @robinadams @book @impactology I was intrigued too. TBL was Doing It Wrong, plus he apparently wasn’t a proper hypermedia academic. It was partly I think alignment with Ted Nelson and partly being appalled that TBL’s worldwide hack was going viral without benefit of all the research they had done. Hell, it wasn’t even proper SGML. They awaited its inevitable death by hubris. @skry @impactology @tomw @robinadams @book Yeah, it's a bit of a "worse is better situation". Or perhaps Alan Kay's "perspective is worth 80 IQ points". @dunhamsteve @impactology @tomw @robinadams @book They had 10 years of various experimental systems that typically ran on one OS, with almost no users except themselves. How terribly wrong Mark Frisse turned out to be. Mark simply didn't have the foresight and imagination needed to see far reaching consequences of Tim's idea. https://archive.org/details/Munnecke-MarkFrissesMessageToTimBernersLee313 @robinadams @book @impactology I mean, the Web is a basic and not particularly novel hypermedia system, so this isn't surprising. The client-agnostic data bus, since effectively wiped out by the Web Platform; and embracing as inevitable, rather than trying so hard to avoid, broken links were it's main distinguishing features IIRC. It was successful because it was free and open and just bad enough, much like Linux. |
@robinadams @book @impactology I went to Hypertext ’97, and they were still arguing about whether to pay attention to the WWW. Great conference nonetheless.
By then I’d had a popular website for 3 years so I considered that stance to be ludicrous even then. They wrote interactive fiction and software to do it with.
They were butthurt about backlinks and transclusion. (Who could blame them?) And here it is, immortalized by…you guessed it:
https://web-archive.southampton.ac.uk/journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ht97/main.html
@robinadams @book @impactology I went to Hypertext ’97, and they were still arguing about whether to pay attention to the WWW. Great conference nonetheless.
By then I’d had a popular website for 3 years so I considered that stance to be ludicrous even then. They wrote interactive fiction and software to do it with.