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Tim Bray on the Birth of XML, 10 Years Later

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-bloatetd-and-grown-up dept.

lazyguyuk writes "Tim Bray posts a lengthy blog on the birth of XML, formalized as 1.0 in Feb 1998. 'XML is ten years old today. It feels like yesterday, or a lifetime. I wrote this that year (1998). It's really long. The title was originally Good Luck and Internet Plumbing but the filename was "XML-People" and I decided I liked that better. I never got around to publishing it, so why not now?'"

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  1. DArn, THe ARticle TItle WAs CHanged by fragbait · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I WAs GOing TO SUggest THat ALl POsts ADhere TO THe NEw CApitalization SCheme. YEs, I REalize THat IT WAs ONly THe FIrst WOrd, BUt THis IS MOre FUn.

    -FRagbait

  2. IVE BEEN WAITING SINCE 1998 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and i finally got a frist post

    1. Re:IVE BEEN WAITING SINCE 1998 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Clearly you should party like it's 1999. It's not, but you can still have a "fake but accurate" party. Do invite Dan Rather.