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catern on July 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Links as originally imagined were a separate layer...

It's interesting to see some of the contemporary systems of the World Wide Web. Does anyone know of a good article exploring why the Web won and the other systems all faded away?

dredmorbius on July 25, 2015 [–]

Tim O'Reilly has written on this a few times, describing how and why ORA chose to pursue HTML/HTTP rather than other proprietary options. Open Sources contains one instance IIRC.

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