{"id":33,"date":"2008-02-05T20:40:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T03:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/2008\/02\/05\/flashing-back-on-html\/"},"modified":"2011-01-03T19:45:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T02:45:10","slug":"flashing-back-on-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/2008\/02\/05\/flashing-back-on-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashing back on HTML"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a web of circuitous links in the process of explaining to my son what a computer *not* connected to the Web might be, I stumbled upon some of our early <a href=\"https:\/\/listserv.heanet.ie\/cgi-bin\/wa?A2=ind9411&#038;L=HTML-WG&#038;P=10258\">working group notes<\/a> discussing the finer points of initial HTML specification. Scanning the minutes I found it interesting to note the original cast of characters:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>HTML-WG Meeting\r\nMonday, Oct 17, 1994, Chicago World Wide Web conference.\r\n\r\nAttendees\r\n\r\nEric Sink            (Spyglass)\r\nStuart Weibel        (OCLC)\r\nEric Miller          (OCLC)\r\nYuri Rubinski        (SoftQuad)\r\nTimBL                (W3O, CERN)\r\nTom Magliere         (NCSA)\r\nRon Daniel           (Los Alamos)\r\nDave Raggett         (HP, UK)\r\nRoy Fielding         (UC Irvine)\r\nPhillip Hallam-Baker (W3O, CERN)\r\nLiam Quin            (SoftQuad)\r\nCorp Reed            (Cold Spring Harbor Lab)\r\nMitra                (Mitra Internet Consulting)\r\nMurray Maloney       (SCO)\r\nBill Perry           (Spry)\r\nTerry Allen          (O'Reilly Associates)\r\nThomas Churchill     (EIT)\r\nDavid Land           (Verity)\r\nJeff Sutor           (UCLA)\r\nJon Bosak            (Novell)\r\nChris Wilson         (Spry)\r\nJohn Punin           (RPI)\r\nDave Hollander       (HP)\r\nJim Seidman          (Spyglass)\r\nLarry Jackson        (NCSA)<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;    My son&#8217;s response to this particular page was simply: &#8220;Hey! Two Erics!&#8221; (here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericsink.com\/\">other one<\/a> and he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/notalegend.com\/\">not a legend<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nFollowing a web of circuitous links in the process of explaining to my son what a computer *not* connected to&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/2008\/02\/05\/flashing-back-on-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Flashing back on HTML&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}