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Subject: worth remembering

From: David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 1994 20:16:58 -0500

THE WEB IS AN IDEA, NOT A PIECE OF SOFTWARE
Physicist Tim Berners-Lee, who was the individual who conceived of the
World Wide Web, warns that one thing to guard against is "someone who says
that in order to get this piece of information you've got to have this
particular software, or someone who tells you you've got to use
such-and-such a carrier.  That's directly contrary to all the ideas behind
the Web." (Internet Business Report Nov. '94, p.8)