I think that putting these two readings together in the same week was a good idea. It was interesting to see how the web has changed so much over the years - but the same basic concept of it is still there. For example, apps may be moving the online world more post-HTML, but Nelson's idea of a network where you could share information from the giver to the receiver still remains strong today.
Engelbart's idea that a user could have a "mouse" or cursor to navigate around a GUI that led to the easier user-interaction with the world wide web still remains strong today. We no longer have a cursor involved with tablets or hand-held devices, but we navigate through touch - having our fingers substitute for where the cursor once was.
TCP/IP was adopted as the standard protocol for ARPAnet in 1982 and was used as the building block for transferring information through the Web, but we still use TCP/IP today. Almost every tablet runs off of WiFi; and if you check in your WiFi settings, there is a tab that still says TCP/IP, which allows you to change the address of your computer or the way that the Web sees it and is able to communicate with it.
I like how you identify the soul of the WWW in the networked structure and the standard protocol as the skeleton of the systems present. How do these parts influence how the web is designed?
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