Subj : Freebies
To   : ROY J. TELLASON
From : CHARLES ANGELICH
Date : Sat May 14 2005 05:24 pm

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Hello Roy - 

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CA>>> The original 'point' of HTML was to allow college
CA>>> professors to  setup spreadsheet type displays with
CA>>> columns of data that had headers for each column etc.
CA>>> HTML _became_ a way to layout graphics and other things
CA>>> in spite of vigorous protest from college types and the
CA>>> W3C. 

RJT>> I thought that the original point was being able to link
RJT>> documents to each other. 

CA>> Apple 'invented' hypertext links if that's what you are
CA>> referring to. 

RJT> They may claim that, but I think Ted Nelson wrote about it
RJT> before Apple got into it, back in 1974 or thereabouts. 

Leonardo DaVinci 'wrote about' flight but can't take credit for
the first airplane. ;-) 

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