Wonderful bit of #web trivia here - the Web is STILL "vague but exciting" - or perhaps more accurately: "increasingly abstract but exciting"
Vala Afshar
 @ValaAfshar
9 Oct 2016
When @timberners_lee first proposed the World Wide Web in 1989, his boss at @CERN responded: "vague but exciting"
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-- i'd disagree, in that, compared to what _might_ be done with files on the internet, www is overspecified, yet unimaginative.
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-- .html as the only method of markup? .css as the only method of styling? .js as the only way to do programming inside a page?
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Replying to @bbirdiman
I think there's a lot more creative potential, but I do acknowledge that "one way or the highway" is no means to achieve quality!

Oct 9, 2016 · 11:21 PM UTC