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kenjacksonyesterday at 6:25 PM1 replyview on HN

If it makes them feel any better, I told people in the 90s that the WWW didn't make sense because we already have telnet, archie, gopher, veronica, and ftp. What can WWW give me when I already have those tools to connect with...


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nine_kyesterday at 7:57 PM

In 1993 that was true. In 1998 it was starkly different, due to the advent of DOM, and JavaScript to manipulate it.

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