"This project is experimental and of course comes without any warranty
whatsoever. However, it could start a revolution in information access."

Doan: “And who owns the web?”
@timberners_lee: “We do.”
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"The MiniGML user manual illustrates what was "state of the art" in the middle of the 80ies, in the middle between the invention of SGML and Tim Berners-Lee's early WWW proposal, and it made me think about the history of SGML and HTML."

"The CERN at this time was using DCF/GML for many major documentation tasks. Tim Berners-Lee was a hypertext guru and a DCF/GML user, so the similarities between GML and HTML are not just accidental."

timbl proposes Document and Thing as clearer replacements for Resource in web specs