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@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.

Like 18 September at 9:50 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social

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@skry @tomw @robinadams @book

they couldn't fathom how he was going viral? 😅

18 September at 9:51 | Open on mastodon.social

skry

@impactology @tomw @robinadams @book Perfect is the enemy of Good Enough.

18 September at 9:53 | Open on mastodon.social

@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".

18 September at 14:56 | Open on mathstodon.xyz

skry

@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.

18 September at 19:01 | Open on mastodon.social