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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
That the web trains users not to sustain their attention seems obvious, since hypertext was famously designed by someone with ADD. |
Just to clarify: that article is about the hypertext vaporware project Xanadu (and the people involved in it) -- the www is *not* the same thing and did not come from that project. The article even states:
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While Miller, Gregory, and the other coders were agonizing over their broken system, the Internet was offering a simple prototype of a universal library. Unlike the carefully guarded Xanadu code, the programming tools on which the Internet depended were open to all, and tens of thousands of users tinkered with them. In Geneva, Tim Berners-Lee, completely ignorant of the Xanadu propaganda, wrote a simple standard for hypertext publishing, which he named the World Wide Web.
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