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Re: A WWW history question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dkearns{TCNET/HR/dkearns}@klaven.t)
Fri Nov 4 10:24:04 1994
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 16:23:32 +0100
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>From: ZPALASTA @ SMTP (Alastair Aitken CLMS)
{ZPALASTAIR@CLUSTER.NORTH-LONDON.AC.UK}
>Date: Friday, November 04, 1994 7:30AM
>
>Steinar Bang writes:
>
>>Would it be correct to say that the earliest idea of the WWW was to
>>offer a single consistent user interface to different network
>>services, rather than a world wide hypertext system?
>
>Tim Berners-Lee is interviewed about the origins and future of the web in
>the October issue of "Internet World". This article may also be available
>electronically but I cannot say where. He comments in this article that he
>"... would like a single user interface for all of these things [usenet,
>e-mail and the web] ..." which would seem to suggest that the original
>intention was a distributed hypertext system.
>
GNN currently has a copy of an interview (may be the same one):
http://gnn.interpath.net/gnn/news/index.html
-dave
