“It’s a funny story because when I proposed adding forms, Tim Berners-Lee came back and said, ‘No, no, we don't want to do that,’” Montulli recalls. “He thought everything should be done with links.”
There was another fundamental limitation to the Web back in those days: it had a very short attention span. The Web had been designed for a certain kind of efficiency: a user would connect to a web server, grab a document, and then disconnect, freeing up the server to share another document with another user. There was no concept of a “user session” where the server could recall your preferences or your identity as you moved from page to page. “[It was] a bit like talking to someone with Alzheimer's disease,” Montulli would later write. “Each interaction would result in having to introduce yourself again, and again, and again.”
“It was a bit like talking to someone with Alzheimer's disease. Each interaction would result in having to introduce yourself again, and again, and again.”
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