“The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect — to help people work together — and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner.”
—Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving The Web
see gnodal and my ”ParDelib” tag
Addendum:
“Part of the genius of Tim Berners-Lee’s original design of the Web was a total unification of several concepts in a single idea, the page:
* the user’s view of the information on the screen
* the unit of navigation (what you get when you click a link or activate a navigation action like a bookmark)
* a textual address used to retrieve information over the net (the URL)
* the storage of the information on the server and the author’s editing unit (except if using embedded objects like image files which do require the author to manage multiple files for a page)The fundamental design of the Web is based on having the page as the atomic unit of information, and the notion of the page permeates all aspects of the Web. The simplicity of the original Web contributed to its ease of use and its rapid uptake.”
from ”Ajax Sucks Most of the Time” (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox December 2005)