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How To Make A Leaky Bucket From A Sow's Ear

Ward Cunningham

When Ward Cunningham started to use the web, he simply wanted a WYSIWYG page layout and scripting system like the Hypercard and Smalltalk environments he was used to. He was shocked to find that the web browser was disastrously unlike every other personal computing application, in being "just for consumption" with no authoring system attached, except for the decidedly mid-60s non-WYSIWYG markup languages that were like playing a musical instrument and then waiting for many seconds to see if one had guessed the notes right!

Yikes!

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