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Re:Why Veteran Visionaries Will Save the World by pg on Sunday January 11, 2009 @11:57AM (#429286)
A lot of things that seem cool but useless turn out later to be useful. Back in 1995, a lot of people thought the web itself was cool but useless.
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Re:Why Veteran Visionaries Will Save the World by gaius on Sunday January 11, 2009 @04:52PM (#429664)
Not really. The web was invented for a specific purpose: Gopher had proved inadequate for scientists informally publishing papers and collaborating. Even if consumers had never taken it up, it would still be being used by the physics community for its original purpose.
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Re:Why Veteran Visionaries Will Save the World by brlewis on Monday January 12, 2009 @02:17PM (#430946)
When Tim Berners-Lee was traveling around pitching the WWW in 1991 he didn't present it as a physics-only project, or even an academics-only project.
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