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

[Darryl (Dassa) Lynch]

link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au wrote:
|| 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">mul
|| ti-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.

I used to do linking for terms and expressions in a lot of the documents I
produced but was told by my boss that it wasn't acceptable and I needed to
put the explanations at the end of the document so people didn't have to
click on a link to bring it up as individual lots but could read through it
all if they wanted to.  

Could never understand why it was too much effort for the readers but then
where I work they still follow some very strange ways such as a executive
wanting a laptop but then never removing it from the office dock.

Darryl (Dassa) Lynch