[6576] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: A WWW history question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steinar Bang)
Mon Nov 7 04:25:06 1994
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1994 09:33:00 +0100
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Reply-To: steinarb@falch.no
From: Steinar Bang <steinarb@falch.no>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
> 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?
> This question appears to confuse servers and browsers. A single
> user interface is, by definition, a browser, whilst a world wide
> hypertext system, although not necessarily a server, is definitely
> not a browser.
I'm not sure I'm getting your point here. I know the difference
between servers and browsers, and I wasn't really talking about
either.
I was wondering about the original idea behind the internet service
WWW.
> If you look at the original www browser it does *not* fit the bill
> for a multi purpose browser.
OK. I've seen some references that this was the idea behind WWW, is
all.
Thanx for the reference.
