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		vezzy-fnord on July 28, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop pushing the web forward the web is something else completely different, which we've never seen before, and mark my words, it will not disappear or be superseded anytime soon Smalltalk environments? That's the gist of it. The web is a file server protocol with a pseudo-Smalltalk coating. We've seen hypertext systems in general many times before the web.

dasil003 on July 28, 2015 [–]

None that crossed the chasm. That's what makes the web special and unique, not the functionality.

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