"I'll call Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript." http://t.co/j5nyPYLn

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via @kevinmarks

Going drinking in the city later. Dumplings now. Om nom. @alfalfasaysyes #TBL says they're just as good as Shanghai.

This document was an attempt to persuade CERN management that a global hypertext system was in CERN's interests. Note that the only name I had for it at this time was "Mesh" -- I decided on "World Wide Web" when writing the code in 1990.

How would you like to be the man who told Tim Berners-Lee he was crazy? (TED video):

WorldWideWeb is a hypertext browser/editor which allows one to read information from local files and remote servers. It allows hypertext links to be made and  
traversed, and also remote indexes to be interrogated for lists of useful  documents. Local files may be edited, and links made from areas of text to other files, remote files, remote indexes, remote index searches, internet news groups and articles. All these sources of information are presented in a consistent way to the reader. For example, an index search returns a hypertext document with pointers to documents matching the query.  Internet news articles are displayed with hypertext links to other referenced articles and groups.

— Tim Berners Lee

I read "Government opens up more data for free" / HT @MannyC

"After having written www, Berners-Lee noticed that there was a NeXt developers conference in Paris at which Steve Jobs would be present. Tim packed up his black cube, complete with the optical disk which contained arguably the most influential and important code ever written and took a train to Paris.

It was a large and popular conference and Tim was pretty much at the end of the line of black NeXt boxes. Each developer showed Steve Jobs their new word-processor, graphic programme and utility and he slowly walked along the line, like the judge at a flower show nodding his approval or frowning his distaste. Just before he reached Tim and the world wide web at the end of the row, an aide nudged Jobs and told him that they should go or he’d be in danger of missing his flight back to America. So Steve turned away and never saw the programme that Tim Berners-Lee had written which would change the world as completely as Gutenberg had in 1450. It was a meeting of the two most influential men of their time that never took place. Chatting to the newly knighted Sir Tim a few years ago he told me that he had still never actually met Steve Jobs."

Outlook fair for amateurs as Met Office releases data - Telegraph

How compromises happen in pursuit of adoption. Sometimes the grand vision is realized and sometimes it is lost.

A collection of design principles from adactio...