Gregory's Server
@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
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 @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. |
@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.