<nettime> night of the living HTML purists [digest: recktenwald, cloninger]

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Re: <nettime> Re: Bill Thompson: Dump the World Wide Web
     Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@uni-bonn.de>
     Curt Cloninger <curt@lab404.com>

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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 02:56:16 +0100
From: Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@uni-bonn.de>
Subject: Re: <nettime> Re: Bill Thompson: Dump the World Wide Web

Hi,

18:59 10.01.2005, Curt Cloninger wrote:
>Here's an even earlier proclamation of the web's death.  This
>self-aggrandizing piece famously stirred the web design pot back in

Well said, can somebody please explain what is so wonderfull and special 
with David Siegel?
Downloaded one of his "Mindmappers" and coudnt fimd amything.

H.


>1997:
>http://xml.coverpages.org/siegelRuined.html

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:53:43 -0500
From: Curt Cloninger <curt@lab404.com>
Subject: Re: <nettime> Re: Bill Thompson: Dump the World Wide Web


Hi Heiko,

It seems like "wonkdom" is often conferred upon people who get in on 
something early and are able to speak from a consistent perspective.

Siegel was making web sites that looked like this:
http://www.dsiegel.com/home.html
when everyone else's sites looked like this:
http://www.dirtstyledesign.com

Lots of web designers cut their teeth on his book back in 1996 
because the only other how-to web design books at the time were HTML 
manuals.

_

At 2:56 AM +0100 1/11/05, Heiko Recktenwald wrote:
>Well said, can somebody please explain what is so wonderfull and 
>special with David Siegel?
>Downloaded one of his "Mindmappers" and coudnt fimd amything.

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