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When the web was in the egg
THIS Web thing: when was it hatched? Those interested in nearly practical history traditionally point to Ted Nelson‘s 1960 Xanadu project – essentially an electronic quotation machine constructed around two-way links. It’s what scrupulous coders call the Right Thing. Every quotation “knows” where it comes from and every source work “knows” where it’s quoted. If you make money, a share automatically flows back to the authors you quote – dissolving many of today’s…
