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Tim Pozar and Brewster Kahle CHM Interview by Marc Weber October 29 1996

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2h2LHRFbNA

Brewster said:

But also the early stuff has got people's dreams. The early people that sort of say -- you know, the early people on the web, like you, doing your dinosaur exhibit. You've got this ability to be able to do something new and different. But at some point, people will just say, "oh, well, you know, you can't do that", and they'll just sort of focus in on all it can do. But in the beginning, you have just amazing things. So I always kept the early logs of WAIS. I thought those would be the most valuable things. Is one of the questions, that people ask of the net. And so I kept all of those logs.

Oh, you have those? Oh yeah. What do people look for? What are people dreaming that the technology can finally answer? And right now already, the web has sort of stagnated, people's idea of it has really focused down to the stuff the technicians have given. But it's the early dreams that we should trying to live up to. So I'm trying to keep some of that alive.

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> > And right now already, the web has sort of stagnated, people's idea of it has really focused down to the stuff the technicians have given

This comment has not aged well at all.

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Been thinking a lot about concept and word hijacking/cancellation, lately. Dasher is a good example. Ever notice how this happens? It is one of my concerns about agentic AI.

I haven't thought about Motif in ages, either, incidentally. Another tricky word, of course.

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