The Real Story of the World Wide Web

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWDPhEvKuRY

Come on... Ted Nelson deserves much more views! maybe Project Xanadu is vaporware, but he is a really smart old man..
On the other side you have timbl who is selling the web to Hollywood lobbies. We should start all this cyberspace and hypertext shit again.

Honestly loving the thread so far guys: Arguments about the ideas of old grumpy sysops who did a lot of drugs and never got laid are way more interesting than they have any right to be -- especially when you throw some cranky aspies autists into the mix! (cf. >>45-55) That said, I feel that >>43 has made an excellent point and I am eagerly awaiting more discussion on this topic!

And I think you guys will appreciate this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1581891.stm

He was hating the WWW way back when people made Pets.com jokes unironically!