Re: FAQ formatting

Justin Sheehy (dworkin@ccs.neu.edu)
30 Jan 1997 20:51:08 -0500

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Okay, I'll leave this one alone now. All I was trying to do with my
original post was clarify what the correct way to represent an URL
was.

I actually find it very amusing that URLs are everywhere now. In
print, on tv, etc.

The original design of the web was that you would never have to see an
URL. They were entirely for computers. Humans would get from place
to place with links, and URLs would reside entirely in source that
would be hidden from them.

At the 4th annual world wide web conference, Tim Berners-Lee (who
pretty much invented the web) expressed great frustration that "people
are now reading URLs ... instead of reading and writing content."

Then again, email wasn't designed for unsolicited commercial
advertising either.

-Justin, rambling off into a world of idealism

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