Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Cougar DTD

[Foteos Macrides]

address@hidden (Drazen Kacar) wrote:
>Could you tell us youngsters a really spooky story about that relocation.
>You know, the one with the witch queen and her evil minions. Pointing to some
>archives would be good enough ;)

        Not really.  The relocation plans were made in 1993 and early 1994,
when universities were still feeling the consequences of the global recession
of the '80s, and the drastic cuts of federal support via grants in the US.
Lots of universities, MIT included, sought to cope via commercial financing
in one or another way.  But structure always affects function.  What was
planned in 1994 was that the W3C be a:

        <DIV ALIGN="center">

for Web development.  By 1996, with Netscape's "cornering of the browser
market", the MIT contingent succumbed to:

        <CENTER>

Sigh...

                                Fote

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