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Re:Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award by jarmitage on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @03:56PM (#14036584)
Kay is bang on.

1. http://worrydream.com/TheWebOfAlexandria/

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot

3. Comment elsewhere in this thread about how we have been forced into turning a document system into a VM.

Re:Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award by leoc on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @05:12PM (#14037253)
He's absolutely right, and also completely wrong. It's like listening to the blind men argue about the elephant. "It's a particle!" "No, it's a wave!" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2119057