I think the thing that made the www, despite its inadequacy, was Andreessen's <img> tag. Images gave designers the ability to make a page look like something. It was possible to create the illusion that HTML could do anything, that it was what we needed. It quickly attracted a majority of naive technologists, which attracted the herd.
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Douglas Crockford
on 03/21/2008
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About Douglas Crockford
Crock is a product of our public school system. A registered voter, he owns his own car. He has developed office automation systems. He did research in games and music at Atari. He was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm. He was Director of New Media at Paramount. He was the founder and CEO of Electric Communities/Communities.com. He was founder and CTO of State Software, where he discovered JSON. He is now an architect at Yahoo!.
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