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001030_marca@wintermu….ncsa.uiuc.edu _Thu May 6 00:36:42 1993.msg
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Date: Wed, 5 May 93 17:59:45 -0500
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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To: aronsson@lysator.liu.se
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: forwarded... [Explicit Linking is Impossible]
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aronsson@lysator.liu.se writes:
> I don't know, Marc, what your seemingly sarcastic two line remark
> means. If you mean tbat maintaining hypertext links within large
> collections of texts is easy and affordable, if you have good tools
> for this, perhaps you could enlighten me and other people about
> this?
It was just a joke... fyi, I'm an ex-IBM'er, and it amuses me greatly
to see the "we can do anything, and if we can't, it's not possible"
mentality still in action.
No, I don't think that maintaining hypertext links within large
collections of texts is currently easy and quote-unquote affordable,
and I don't have any magic tools, but that has nothing to do with
whether or not such a task is "impossible". Limitations of current
technology should not be extrapolated to judge possibility or
impossibility; I would have thought the Wright brothers taught us that
principle some time ago.
Pardon, however, the humor,
Marc