Here is my impressionistic transcript of Simon "Chief Tech Evangelist" Phipps's talk at Supernova.
IBM came up with SNA — the architecture that would rule the
world. What if the Itnernet had been built on BBSes or SNA:
Prodigy. A central administrator would have to give permission to
add your browser to the master table, and every site would use a
different protocol."Massively Connected" is all about shared, open, royalty-free loosely coupled
standards — not "everything joined to everything else," but
"everything joined to everything else WITH THE RIGHT RULES."
