- My article on linking:
Why on earth would I link to you?
- See follow-up to this article.
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In defence of Wikipedia
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See my article on linking: Why on earth would I link to you?.
See also my error-tolerant web server and my scheme for stopping spam.
In defence of Wikipedia
I am from the generation that started using the Internet in the 1980s.
On the Internet since: late 1987.
My first trace on the Internet that survives: post to comp.unix.questions, 31 Mar 1988.
The pre-Web Internet was great fun, but not easy to use. I watched with delight as the Web was invented to make sense of the chaos that we had used before. I had imagined that some kind of point-and-click menus would make the Internet more usable, and I even had my own personal "Home page" running via chat commands in the 1980s, but it never crossed my mind that hypertext was the answer. When I saw the command-line Web I still wasn't impressed. But after my first trip out with Mosaic for X-Windows in 1993, I saw the point of the Web and I was converted totally.
My own "Web page" (menu of online files) since: February 1989.My first home page was basically a list of links, which is now my AI Links page.On the Web (command-line browser) since: late 1992 - early 1993.
On the Web (Mosaic) since: late 1993.
Home page on the Web since: November 1994.
Movies on my website since: 1995.
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