July 07, 2005, 1:18 PM — In the unimaginably distant future, a digital paleontologist specializing in the history of the Web will write a research grant application to the Galactic Federation. That application will concentrate on a defining moment in the evolution of the Web. A moment that happened in the early 21st century. Here is an extract from that application as I imagine it might look...
"The history of digital data processing over the millennia evidences again and again a tension between adding new layers of abstraction and re-using existing layers of abstraction in new ways. The ancient
