[LINK] List of 6898 WWW servers as of November 7, 1994

[Fernando Cassia]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Antony Barry <tony at tony-barry.emu.id.au> wrote:
> This takes me back - <http://mit.edu/~mkgray/project/comprehensive/
> lycos.html.gz>. A few of them are still going. Anybody on link
> recognise their early handiwork?
>
> Tony

[sorry if this was already sent, it was sitting on my drafts folder,
so I'm sending it in case I didn't]

Remember the days when hypertext was thought as a learning tool, so
everyone did an extra effort of
linking words to actual word meanings and sites?

For instance, do you remember when in Web articles one would say

"Windows 3.1 allows for the use of <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifunction_printer">multi-function</A>
printers shared on a <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_network">Home Network</A>
using the Netbios protocol.

Of course that can of "heavy linking" was abused too (like the <BLINK>
tag) but nowadays people rarely link uncommon terms or technical terms
to their meaning. I still try to do it whenever I remember about it.

FC