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Re:The World Wide Web Is Dead by type0 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @03:05AM (#24350767)
> really need all of the parts, otherwise you will have a broken, half-working (if that) system

WWW won exactly because it was half finished - extendable and not despite of it, otherwise we would all be using Gopher now.

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Re:The World Wide Web Is Dead by bitwize on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @03:35AM (#24350918)
It's one of those things like C that seemed like a good idea at the time, and only with the fullness of time do we come to realize its bone-deep irreparable flaws... but now we're stuck with it effectively forever.
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Re:The World Wide Web Is Dead by type0 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @03:50AM (#24350991)
Worse, it isn't that we stuck with it, but the public have lost control to WHATWG (el Goog & the Gang)
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