I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
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What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.
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So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
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