Saturday, December 31, 2005

As I May Think...: How the read/write web was lost...

Bob Wyman writes about how he developed a "WWW equivalent system" that ran on VAX. He discusses how the selling of an idea changes the original idea - sometimes for the worst.

He explains that the web became mostly read only because the first client interfaces had to solve particular subsets of the information sharing/collaboration meme.He hopes that the growth of Wikis and blogs rectifies the issue. But he doesn't make it clear how the original read/write web compares with the current developments with wikis and blogs.

Read more at bobwyman.pubsub.com/mai...

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