The Web That Never Was
summary
IBM licenses Digital Research on the IBM PC and Microsoft never becomes dominant; browsers and servers embed hyper Lisp with continuation-passing so client code is serializable and asynchronous client‑server apps work out of the box using grid verbs like select/create/submit. Consumers get 5 MB free hosting; the NextBook ships with 333 MHz ARM, 64 MB RAM and 5 GB flash and Nexus browser; Perfect Digital’s GridPerfect, Blink/BeLink and Nintendo’s MMO "Reality" all launch successfully, changing search, publishing and where computation runs.
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chapters (47)
- 0:00Intro
- 6:09When I was born
- 6:38Things invented
- 8:28Darwinian survival
- 9:09IBM
- 12:58The Internet
- 13:21DNS
- 16:25The World Wide Web
- 17:16Microcosm
- 18:45Beyond
- 20:39The Grid
- 23:46CERN Dog
- 24:09HTML naught
- 25:55Anchor
- 27:56Digital Research
- 29:48Apple
- 31:29Perfect Digital
- 31:51Silicon Graphics
- 32:38Nintendo 64
- 34:02Gem III
- 34:17GridPerfect
- 36:20lisp
- 36:39viaweb
- 37:22Hyper Lisp
- 40:21Grid Submit
- 41:05List
- 41:46Gem 95
- 43:07Bea
- 44:13Opera
- 45:46Dialup
- 46:05BackRub
- 48:17The Millennium Bug
- 48:44The Next Generation
- 49:38The Next Book
- 50:45The Next Step
- 52:09The Next Gen
- 52:47The Buzz Starts
- 53:04Reality
- 53:21Virtual Reality
- 55:20Tim BernersLee
- 56:39HTML
- 56:58Rich Text Format
- 57:08Embedding Lisp
- 57:52Super Mario 3
- 58:24Nintendo
- 58:52Microsoft Windows
- 59:35Excite
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