Richard MacManus @ricmac@mastodon.social
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I’m sure we will hear a lot about Bill Atkinson (RIP) over the next few days, but I want to point out the huge influence of on the Web. @timblTim Berners-Lee himself mentioned it in his original WWW proposal (cybercultural.com/p/1990-progr), early web browsers like ViolaWWW were modeled on HyperCard (cybercultural.com/p/1992-web-v), and even JavaScript owed a debt to it (HyperCard included an object oriented scripting language called HyperTalk; cybercultural.com/p/1995-the-b).

1990: Programming the World Wide Web image

1990: Programming the World Wide Web

In the final few months of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee and his colleague Robert Cailliau developed the world’s first browser, created HTML, wrote the first web server, and invented HTTP.

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