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Re:Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”? by efitz on Saturday April 30, 2022 @08:49PM (#31220997)
We had gopher and SGML before and independently of CERN. The internet was just starting to take off; dial-up modem BBS emigres were getting shell accounts at early ISPs around that time (I know; I had such an account and worked at such an ISP).

Just because TBL happened to work at CERN and have a need for hypermedia, doesn't mean that we wouldn't have the WWW in approximately the same shape in approximately the same time frame without CERN or TBL.

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Re:Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”? by LargoLasskhyfv on Sunday May 01, 2022 @06:36AM (#31223826)
In an alternative timeline we could have had

[1] http://www.art.net/studios/Hackers/Hopkins/Don/hyperlook/ind...

[2] https://donhopkins.medium.com/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-go... (with screen shots)

[3] https://libarynth.org/hyperlook (larger screenshots)

based on

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

running atop of whatever, maybe even

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project

&

[6] http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/homepage.html

instead of the bloat we have now.

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