On the early metaphors that drove the original development of Unix: https://zge.us.to/txt/unix-harmful.html
(Lots of typewriter influence, and amazingly the first versions did not have a notion of pipes!)
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The Humane Representation of Thought, a talk by Brett Victor:
https://vimeo.com/115154289
I've not seen Brett talk before, and he raises interesting points about the influence of the medium on our analytical thoughts.
Microsoft's Edge moving to Chromium will reduce browser diversity. However, Safari/WebKit has forked from Chromium. Presumably they'll diverge over time?
Browser vendors influence *new* standards, and both Apple and Google will need to do implementation work.
I am fascinated to learn that Multics (the Unix predecessor) was a big influence on the lisp condition system (i.e. resumable exceptions)!
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