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Long ago, I was a reviewer of one of the first manuscripts by Tim Berners-Lee in which he proposed the concept of the URL. Obsessed with the notion of bi-directional links and imbued with the combinatorics of such links when the number of nodes was large, I simply could not get my head around the simplicity of a uni-directional link.
Last year while at a PHR conference at Torrey Pines, Tom Munnecke took the pains to document publicly my admission of error. As I told Tom, I was really wrong then and hope to be wrong again many times in the future. Such is the price of progress.
Mea culpa, Tim.
Mark
P.S. Tom has a remarkable video diary. I would recommend adding his rss feed and you can hear remarks from a lot of people who are making a difference.
His rss feed is: http://munnecke.blip.tv/rss
P.P.S. In truth, it was Mosaic that made response fast enough to have the "URL not found" message acceptable; for those interested, this just reaffired the CMU ZOG experiments of the 1970s that demonstrated how important response time was when browsing."
Of course, I told John Doerr shortly after forming Mosaic (later NetScape) that I wasn't sure these technologies would bring as great a return as some of his biotechnology investments. Wrong again. :-)
Long ago, I was a reviewer of one of the first manuscripts by Tim Berners-Lee in which he proposed the concept of the URL. Obsessed with the notion of bi-directional links and imbued with the combinatorics of such links when the number of nodes was large, I simply could not get my head around the simplicity of a uni-directional link.
Last year while at a PHR conference at Torrey Pines, Tom Munnecke took the pains to document publicly my admission of error. As I told Tom, I was really wrong then and hope to be wrong again many times in the future. Such is the price of progress.
Mea culpa, Tim.
Mark
P.S. Tom has a remarkable video diary. I would recommend adding his rss feed and you can hear remarks from a lot of people who are making a difference.
His rss feed is: http://munnecke.blip.tv/rss
P.P.S. In truth, it was Mosaic that made response fast enough to have the "URL not found" message acceptable; for those interested, this just reaffired the CMU ZOG experiments of the 1970s that demonstrated how important response time was when browsing."
Of course, I told John Doerr shortly after forming Mosaic (later NetScape) that I wasn't sure these technologies would bring as great a return as some of his biotechnology investments. Wrong again. :-)
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