Re: VRML is a Networking tech.

Paul Lindner ([email protected])
Tue, 18 Apr 1995 17:33:26 -0500 (CDT)


I wonder if you meant to send this to the whole list?

I understand that I've only been on this list directly for a little
while now. But I do hope to make a decent contribution within this
forum. So far much of the discussions have revolved around
philosophical issues. So I have done my best to express my
philosophy, as others have done.

No flames, just opinions and facts.

It's true my background is developing Gopher. I don't know why some
people instantly assume that Gopher is the 'enemy' of WWW? Perhaps
it's a primitive McCarthyesque reaction that there always must be an
enemy out there.

Rest assured, we don't bite. I've even developed tools that turn a
Gopher server into an <BLINK>HTTP</BLINK> server.

So, can we get back to designing the future? I have to get the rest
of the bugs out of my AmbientSound code....

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Paul Burchard sez:
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. [email protected] writes:
. > [[email protected] writes:]
. > >The *only* thing that VRML and WWW share is the use of URLs.
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. Mark, check the .sig before responding to this guy's
. flamebait...lookee here:
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. > > | Gophermaster | University of Minnesota | of comparison.

I was not intending to flame, only to voice my opinions on this
philosophical argument.

. Perhaps the "logic" behind the following masterfully disinformative
. sentence is becoming clearer now:
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. > > VRML is much more inventor than it is HTML/WWW..

This was not meant as a flame, just an observation. As we all know
VRML 1.0 is based on heavily on the Inventor file format. That is a
fact.

VRML was designed to not use HTML like constructs from the very
beginning. That is also a fact.

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 | Paul Lindner | [email protected]   | Slipping into madness
 |              | Distributed Computing Services  | is good for the sake
 | Gophermaster | University of Minnesota         | of comparison.
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