[5454] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Third-party browser enhancements?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Behlendorf)
Fri Sep 2 00:33:52 1994
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 06:28:06 +0200
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From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@wired.com>
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On Fri, 2 Sep 1994, Bill Janssen wrote:
> Excerpts from ext.WorldWideWeb: 1-Sep-94 Re: Third-party browser enh..
> David C. Martin@library. (3331)
>
> > Researchers at the U. of California have created software for embedding
> > interactive program objects within hypermedia documents. Previously,
> > object linking and embedding (OLE) has been employed on single machines or
> > local area networks using MS Windows -TM-. This UC software is the
> > first instance where program objects have been embedded in documents
> > over an open and distributed hypermedia environment such as the
> > World Wide Web on the Internet.
>
> Sorry, this was done years ago in a number of systems -- CMU's freely
> available Andrew system comes to mind.
Yeah, I always wince whenever someone mentions "WWW" and "first" in the
same breath, because they're usually hyping something that doesn't need
to be hyped and/or are just flat out wrong.
This post brought to you by "Wired's First WWW Webmaster ever" :)
Brian
