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permalink for this date  Monday, August 12, 2002

What The Web Was Invented For 

NY Times: "Pet food stores weren't the killer app for the Web, but peer-reviewed scholarly journals might be." [Scripting News]

Am I the only one who thinks this is bleedin' obvious?  Isn't this exactly what the Web was invented for?

Have you read an academic paper recently?  There are no hyperlinks.  They're in PostScript, not HTML, and the footnotes don't even have links in them!

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