I dont work for Tim. He is a colleague. I do build stuff that we both use and vice versa. No offense taken, everyone is entitled to their prefences. I'm not one to judge. I do see the web as not yet finished, however. And I think that is a good thing to spend time on completing.
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Also Xanadu, that's not finished yet either 😂
Yes, I know Ted Nelson. I helped orange pill him. He's at internet archive now. Xanadu is a neat system, but lacks the same network effect of the web. So you can spend your time making a big difference to a small number of people, or making a small difference to a large number of people. There's actually the story of when Tim bought Ted's book "Literary Machines", and could not pay for it because he could not cash a check in swiss francs. I eventually paid Ted in BTC to show it could be one. It would be nice to add some xanadu ideas to the web such as transclusion. In fact the web operating system that we are working on does much of this now.
I tried this same joke on you about a year ago with the same response.
I'm glad you enjoy working with the old guard, must be nice memories.
I lived through that web phase shift which happened in 1996. I worked for a company that sold the search engine software for the backends of AOL, Compuserve, etc. The web hit like a storm in early 1996 when Bill Gates decided to pivot. I was on the Microsoft campus at the time and saw the internal memo. Within two years, we saw our market disappear for search engines to be replaced by webcrawlers. Then Google hit with their PageRank algorithm.