Screenshot of the original WWW proposal open in Word for Macintosh 4.0 running on an Infinite Mac emulator

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   Kevin Driscoll 📳 (kdriscoll@aoir.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 03:58:30 JST Kevin Driscoll 📳

   The original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4.0 file from 1990. Recovering the text, diagrams, and formatting was not impossible but it was hard. A great example of the use of #emulation for historical research and digital preservation.

   https://blog.jgc.org/2024/02/the-original-www-proposal-is-word-for.html

   Edit: I'm glad this resonated with so many of you. Just to clarify— the author of the linked blog post is John Graham-Cumming (someone get him on fedi!) 💾