Re: A WWW history question

Steinar Bang ([email protected])
Mon, 7 Nov 94 09:02:25 +0100


> Steinar Bang writes:
>> Would it be correct to say that the earliest idea of the WWW was to
>> offer a single consistent user interface to different network
>> services, rather than a world wide hypertext system?

> This question appears to confuse servers and browsers. A single
> user interface is, by definition, a browser, whilst a world wide
> hypertext system, although not necessarily a server, is definitely
> not a browser.

I'm not sure I'm getting your point here. I know the difference
between servers and browsers, and I wasn't really talking about
either.

I was wondering about the original idea behind the internet service
WWW.

> If you look at the original www browser it does *not* fit the bill
> for a multi purpose browser.

OK. I've seen some references that this was the idea behind WWW, is
all.

Thanx for the reference.