The interesting thing is that while on the one hand I would like a single-user interface metaphor for all these things, on the other hand one sees that at the lower levels of NNTTP, SMTP and HTTP the protocols also will grow to look more like others, as HTTP uses caching to distribute much-read documents in a self-organizing way which if taken to the limit becomes the flooding of NNTP. So the boundaries will I suspect disappear at all levels.
Predictor: Berners-Lee, Tim
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 e-mail exchange with Tim Berners-Lee, reporter Kris Herbst asks questions for a story she is preparing to run in the August issue of Internet World. Berners-Lee saved the communication and put it up on the W3.org Web site, in its “history” section. Herbst asks Berners-Lee a question regarding the blurring of boundaries between Usenet News, e-mail and the Web. Berners-Lee replies: ”That’s a pet point of mine. The interesting thing is that while on the one hand I would like a single-user interface metaphor for all these things, on the other hand one sees that at the lower levels of NNTTP, SMTP and HTTP the protocols also will grow to look more like others, as HTTP uses caching to distribute much-read documents in a self-organizing way which if taken to the limit becomes the flooding of NNTP. So the boundaries will I suspect disappear at all levels.”
Biography:Tim Berners-Lee of CERN first released his revolutionary World-Wide Web for initial use in 1991 and with it shared his invention HTML (hypertext mark-up language). He later served as director of W3 Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations whose goal was to find ways to help the Web reach its full potential. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Internet World
Title, headline, chapter name: Interview with Berners-Lee
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.w3.org/History/1994/WWW/Journals/InternetWorld/Interview.txt
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