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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 20 2013 @ 10:00 AM EDT |
| The Patent Office. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: gstovall on Thursday, June 20 2013 @ 11:39 AM EDT |
This is not DIRECTLY on the topic; the thought of the origin of the URL brought
up a fun memory...
In 1992, I developed a global file system for a many-hetereogenous-function-node
system that the company I work for produced. The "address" was pretty
simple -- the first version was <node name>:<local address>, where
the <local address> had a node specific format. I quickly replaced that
with a format of //<node name>/<local address>, where the local
address was a unix-like address -- but it gave generic access to any device --
file storage, printers, displays, tape drives, modems, network cards, etc.
Anyway, I was pretty proud of myself, until 1994 a coworker informed me about
this thing called a "URL" that was taking the standards by storm. I
realized immediately there was no future for my address methodology. :)
My whole point here is that the concept of a universal address was well known to
people skilled in the art, if I could come up with (an inferior version) on my
own. And certainly we sent URLs via email at this time. How else would we
discuss particular resources. We already had browsers (by 1994) that rendered
html pages -- it was absolutely no stretch at all to think of an email program
rendering pages. With all the viruses out and about, I remember feeling glad my
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 20 2013 @ 12:11 PM EDT |
| You didn't start using it until after they invented it. Imagine that. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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