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> Those who said that Tim's work was "trivial", or "not-new" or > "didn't solve interesting problems" were right. But those who said it Did "memex" have the concept of universal identifiers? I know that some of the other hypermedia systems at the time permitted linking to a common global id, but it was cumbersome and not the "normal" way of doing links. The WWW is still lagging functionality of many of those hypermedia systems, but the fact that using "universal" identifiers was the "standard" way of identifying targets was at least as important as having a killer app IMO. I think that the URI, not the hyperlink, is the fundamental innovation of the WWW -- and in fact the true potential of the web lies with use of URIs beyond hypermedia. (And by "universal", I mean you have a string identifier that is going to give the exact same result no matter whether called by a user on a workstation in Singapore or a user at CERN.)
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