From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,155dced9a63d95cc,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 114813,155dced9a63d95cc,start X-Google-Attributes: gid114813,public From: claird@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Cameron Laird) Subject: What sells IT (was: What is wrong with OO ?) Date: 1996/12/26 Message-ID: <59u4d3$pkd@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 206049049 references: <32A4659D.347A@shef.ac.uk> <32B89D8D.7999@rase.com> <32BB2C13.A38@rase.com> organization: NeoSoft, Inc. +1 713 968 5800 followup-to: alt.culture.www,comp.software-eng newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.java,comp.object,comp.software-eng,alt.culture.www Date: 1996-12-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <32BB2C13.A38@rase.com>, Tansel Ersavas wrote: . . . >introduced. However, it didn't change the fact that GUI dominated. When >CERN fist introduced the text based ancestor of Mosaic, it didn't really >motivate any users to participate until the hyper-media concept was >introduced. Rest is history. It is not the hyper-link concept that . . . It motivated me. 'Still does. I don't know whether individual experience affects your larger argument, but I've been a WWW enthusi- ast from early on, and I still use lynx at least one order of magnitude more than any other browser. The sights-and-sounds dimen- sion of WWW generally leaves me cold. I've severely trimmed follow-ups. -- Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html claird@NeoSoft.com +1 713 623 8000 #227 +1 713 996 8546 FAX