From: Mark Miller <markm@caplet.com>
Replying To: Tyler Close <tyler@waterken.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:29:33 -0800
Subject: Re: [e-lang] Beta testing for Waterken RDB Webizer

At 05:01 PM 11/20/2002 Wednesday, Tyler Close wrote:
>I'm reminded of a remark that Mark Miller made to me about the
>importance of FTP readme files to the adoption of the WWW. A major
>hurdle to the adoption of a distributed hypertext system is
>getting an initial pool of things to link to. When developing
>Xanadu, Mark worried about how this initial pool of hypertext
>could be created. Mark pointed out that a crucial step in the
>success of the WWW was the use of existing FTP readme files as the
>initial document pool.

Right lesson, but I need to clarify the story a bit.   The success crucially 
depended on the large body of documents already available through FTP + the 
readme files that described them.  In any case, I think that is a good 
analogy, and I'm very excited by Tyler's announcement!


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        Cheers,
        --MarkM

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