Daniel Janus • 10/7/2019

Web of Documents

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This article contrasts Ted Nelson's ambitious Xanadu project with the simpler, more successful World Wide Web. It argues that as features like CSS, cookies, and JavaScript were added to meet user needs, the web fundamentally transformed from a stateless 'Web of Documents' into an interactive 'Web of Applications'.

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