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- On Sun, 1 Nov 1992, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
-
- > Sounds like somone ought to be buying you a workstation for Christmas :-)
- > But I realize that users tend not to use/have X, even now.
- >
-
- Even now? Tim, this has been a sore spot with me for quite some years
- now, so you'll have to excuse this mild flame.
-
- The assumption that many of the interesting technologies on the Internet
- make is that *everyone* has a mega-pel, multi-mip workstation on their
- desk. This is simply not the case. The vast majority of users on the
- Internet have dialin or tty based accounts, and I do not see this trend
- changing in the forseeable future. Any tool which assumes *anything*
- about the hardware resources of the user is (IMHO) a bad thing.
-
- Don't get me wrong, WWW is a marvelous tool, and with the various X-based
- client implementations, it is a truely useful and intuitive approach to
- the presentation of information. But I would suggest that X-based
- solutions are as useful as a Lamborgini Countach for everyday city driving.
-
- *PLEASE* continue to develop WWW with a keen awareness of the requirements
- of the Everyman(person)!
-
- </rr>
-