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Archival status
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<a href="../"><img alt="W3C" src=
"../Icons/WWW/w3c_48x48" /></a>
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Archive document status
</h1>Documents bearing the icon
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<img src="../Icons/WWW/arch1990" />
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<p>
are useful but dated documents with no guarantee that they
are up to date.
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<p>
They are kept because the rate of explosion of Web technology
has meant that many newcomers are unaware of some of the
original design rationale, and so important design criterai
are in danger of being designed out by those who take for
granted or overlook the requirements.
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<p>
So some of this stuff is just as valid now as was then, and
some of it for example has a slant from the original need to
sell the idea of Global Hypertext, the World Wide Web, to the
high enrgy physics (HEP) community which originally funded
it.
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<p>
At that time I didn't realize the importance of dating and
signing and web documents, but as I wrote most of them, other
contributions were normally signed.
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The documents have a horizontal rule at the top after which
the original document follows.
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<address>
Tim Berners-Lee, 1996
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<a href="../"><img alt="W3C" src=
"../Icons/WWW/w3c_48x48" /></a>
<address>
<a href="../People/Berners-Lee/Disclaimer.html">Tim BL</a>
960125
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<a href="../Help/Webmaster.html">Webmaster</a>
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