Issue 1. [Re: [ros-general] ROS-User-Issues]

[jwalsh at bigpond.net.au]

Strictly speaking you are correct Richard.
To be more precise http and html are merely a legacy of  hypercard/hypertalk.
I beg your pardon I will try to be more precise.
Wikipedia too is not written by experts, so you can alter their facts if you fell they are wrong.
We are all to a certain extent captives of legacy.
I am on many lists and find that I sometime grab a convenient answer without properly checking it validity.

Cheers and rosuccess
Justin

---- Richard Campbell <eek2121 at comcast.net> wrote: 
> FYI, Hypercard and it's programming language have nothing to do with 
> HTTP, nor HTML or anything else.  It was completely different.  
> Hypercard 1.0/hypertext was the first language i was really interested 
> in (I liked Tandy BASIC, however the machine died.  I grew up using a 
> Tandy CoCo 2.)
> 
> jwalsh at bigpond.net.au wrote:
> 
> >I don't quite understand what you mean here Alex: 
> >  
> >
> >>Jobs' failed OS ???? Sounds interesting though.
> >>    
> >>
> >And as for:
> >  
> >
> >>QBASIC-level scripting language are the backbone of 
> >>the Internet? Perhaps you might expand on that one??
> >>    
> >>
> >I was refering to the "HT" in "HTTP"
> >And  "backbone was a poor choice of words.
> >I'm sure even sure whether the internet has one.
> >
> >Cheers and rosuccess
> >Justin
> >
> >
> >---- Alex Ionescu <ionucu at videotron.ca> wrote: 
> >  
> >
> >>jwalsh at bigpond.net.au wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Put them both together you get NeXT, for Jobs's Apple HyperText and HyperCard
> >>>Which today is the backbone of the Internet.
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Jobs' failed OS and QBASIC-level scripting language are the backbone of 
> >>the Internet?
> >>I thought Al Gore was the man behind it!
> >>
> >>Best Regards,
> >>Alex Ionescu
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