Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords
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>From: ron.l.johnson@cox.net
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords
>Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:14:29 -0600
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>>On 2010-03-13 19:21, Celejar wrote:
>>> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:31:53 -0600
>>> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
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>>>> Apparently, it's based upon the ideas of Douglas Engelbart back
>in
>>>> the 1960s.
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>>> Apparently, it can be argued * that much of the standard modern
>>> computer UI paradigm is "based on the ideas of Douglas Engelbart".
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>>> * Weasel wording, since ISTR that there's some controversy about
>how
>>> much credit he actually deserves)
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>>This article, written by a former employee of both PARC in it's
>>glory days and Apple when creating the Mac, is very enlightening.
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>>http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=On_Xero
>x,_Apple_and_Progress.txt
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>>--
>>Ron Johnson, Jr.
>>Jefferson LA USA
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>>"If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given
>>us arms." Mike Ditka
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PARC had a (sordid) history of wonderful inventions (the STAR system,
Ethernet) which somehow never made it to market via Xerox
Larry
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