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Yeah, that's right. I think these architectural principles behind URIs were just as important as having a killer app. > -----Original Message----- > From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@i...] > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:25 AM > To: Joshua Allen; xml-dev@l... > Subject: RE: Expertise and Innovation - was Re: Non- > Borg servers can authenticate Borg clients (Was Re: Re: Cookies > at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Participation) > > It was the devaluing of link maintenance ("let 'em snap"). > Before that, people broke their intellectual necks trying > to come up with non-system identifiers. Tim essentially > got rid of non-system identifiers. In the 'web architecture', > it is all one system called the 'universe'. > > len > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joshua Allen [mailto:joshuaa@m...] > > > 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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