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Re: Super basic newbie question

From Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Super basic newbie question
Date 2012-03-13 19:44 +0000
Organization Personal Software
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In article <dh8ul7hnbm0s9pf65au0i01d5kapbomrc9@4ax.com>,
 Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:37:24 +0000, John G Harris
> <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >You must be very old.
> 
> I was in IT before TCP/IP was invented. I remember remarking that I
> saw no future for it. I've made worse mistakes.

My mate at CERN, who had the next-door office to Tim Berners-Lee, could 
see not much future for T B-L's demos of primitive web tools in 1991 or 
so. I was not overly impressed by the Alto when I saw it at PARC in 1982 
or so.

In both cases it was because what we saw was slow and/or clunky. We were 
unable to see past that.

-- 
Tim

"That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed,
nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted"  --  Bill of Rights 1689

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Super basic newbie question "Larry.Martell@gmail.com" <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2012-03-08 06:51 -0800
  Re: Super basic newbie question Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2012-03-08 16:04 +0100
    Re: Super basic newbie question "Larry.Martell@gmail.com" <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2012-03-08 09:15 -0800
      Re: Super basic newbie question Mike Duffy <never@you.mind.com> - 2012-03-09 01:01 +0000
  Re: Super basic newbie question "Tom de Neef" <tdeneef@qolor.nl> - 2012-03-08 16:08 +0100
    Re: Super basic newbie question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-09 04:05 +0100
      Re: Super basic newbie question "Tom de Neef" <tdeneef@qolor.nl> - 2012-03-09 10:47 +0100
  Re: Super basic newbie question SAM <stephanemoriaux.NoAdmin@wanadoo.fr.invalid> - 2012-03-08 16:10 +0100
    Re: Super basic newbie question "Larry.Martell@gmail.com" <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2012-03-08 09:15 -0800
      Re: Super basic newbie question Dr J R Stockton <reply1210@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 21:39 +0000
        Re: Super basic newbie question SAM <stephanemoriaux.NoAdmin@wanadoo.fr.invalid> - 2012-03-10 09:55 +0100
          Re: Super basic newbie question Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2012-03-10 18:19 +0000
            Re: Super basic newbie question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-10 21:59 +0000
              Re: Super basic newbie question Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2012-03-12 09:58 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-12 10:02 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2012-03-12 10:57 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-12 15:39 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-12 15:37 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2012-03-13 10:34 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2012-03-13 10:12 -0600
                Re: Super basic newbie question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-13 19:44 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-03-13 19:50 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-03-13 08:58 -0700
            Re: Super basic newbie question SAM <stephanemoriaux.NoAdmin@wanadoo.fr.invalid> - 2012-03-11 00:04 +0100
              Re: Super basic newbie question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-10 23:16 +0000
              Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-12 16:41 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-13 19:46 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question Dr J R Stockton <reply1211@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> - 2012-03-14 21:01 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-14 17:18 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-15 20:16 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-15 14:36 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-15 23:41 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-15 16:49 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-16 16:55 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-16 18:09 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question Dr J R Stockton <reply1211@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> - 2012-03-16 19:47 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-16 18:27 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question Dr J R Stockton <reply1211@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> - 2012-03-18 19:27 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-18 16:55 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2012-03-17 11:35 +0100
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-17 09:42 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2012-03-18 01:33 +0100
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-17 17:46 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-17 19:45 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-15 10:00 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-17 14:53 +0100
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-17 12:43 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-17 23:39 +0100
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-17 15:54 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-18 10:48 +0100
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-18 04:06 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-18 13:52 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-18 12:10 -0700
          Re: Super basic newbie question Dr J R Stockton <reply1210@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-11 19:02 +0000
  Re: Super basic newbie question "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2012-03-08 17:17 +0200
    Re: Super basic newbie question "Larry.Martell@gmail.com" <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2012-03-08 09:17 -0800
  Re: Super basic newbie question Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-03-08 08:44 -0800
    Re: Super basic newbie question "Larry.Martell@gmail.com" <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2012-03-08 09:24 -0800
  Re: Super basic newbie question Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2012-03-08 17:03 +0000

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