[HN Gopher] Web Development History - Internet history for the t...
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       Web Development History - Internet history for the technically
       curious
        
       Author : ptx
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2023-12-27 19:04 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (webdevelopmenthistory.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (webdevelopmenthistory.com)
        
       | jauntywundrkind wrote:
       | Strongly product-oriented/Proper-Noun-centric view of it. There's
       | good stuff here, but the eras felt more amorphous & fluid,
       | different people riffing with ideas in different ways. The
       | presentation here feels distorting, contorts things into a _Great
       | Man_ view of history that doesn 't feel representative of the
       | times.
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       | I forget the guys name, and I think I have it wrong, but Raymond
       | Cheng or some name like that has an excellent 3+ part writeup of
       | the web, that I thought was a lot more respectful of protocols &
       | iteration & change. And much more inclusive of the front end,
       | where-as this feels dominated more by back end concerns. Front
       | end basically dicides up html, css, and js and calls it a day?
        
       | javier_e06 wrote:
       | I was expecting some RFC's like https://www.rfc-
       | editor.org/rfc/rfc2068 or talk about RESTful concepts but they go
       | on name-dropping to ...make it more interesting? In my book of
       | knowledge web is a protocol described in an RFC. The rest of the
       | stuff rides on top so I was expecting to see the a description of
       | the evolution of such protocol. Netscape (danm you cookies!),
       | PhP, Adobe Flash (Oh boy) is not the history of the bar but the
       | history of the celebrities who frequent the joint.
        
         | askonomm wrote:
         | I'm only a few articles in at the moment, but I really like it
         | so far. Yes, it's not as technical as RFC's would be, but it's
         | still quite enjoyable as leisurely reading.
        
           | ptx wrote:
           | Yeah, that's what I thought as well. It pulls together
           | screenshots, photos, code snippets, quotes and links to
           | historical documents. The RFCs don't have this stuff.
           | 
           | (Maybe I shouldn't have included the "for the technically
           | curious" part in the title when I submitted it, since it
           | isn't focused on the most technical parts?)
        
       | divbzero wrote:
       | I like the tidbit about how <IMG> came to be:
       | Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 21:09:02 -0800       From: Marc Andreessen
       | (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu)       Subject: proposed new tag: IMG
       | I'd like to propose a new, optional HTML tag:              IMG
       | Required argument is SRC="url".              ...
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       | http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.ht...
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       | The same _www-talk_ mailing list also included emails from Tim
       | Berners-Lee and Guido van Rossum:
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       | http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/
        
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