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[Tony Smith <ts@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just in case anybody interested missed it:

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/24/1054214

which starts out:

> In a world that increasingly takes the WWW, its pages and the other 
> documents we exchange in the electronic world as given - and knights 
> Tim Berners-Lee without an understanding of the pre-WWW background of 
> stateless client/server document architectures (e.g. Gopher) and 
> hypertext (e.g. Xanadu) on which he built - there still beavers away a 
> forgotten figure, Ted Nelson, eager to more fully achieve the original 
> hypertext vision. In recent communications Nelson says: 'The tekkies 
> have hijacked literature- with the best intentions, of course!-) - but 
> now the humanists have to get it back. ...'


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