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fix: add new ethos from TBL
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# isindex…?

In our crusade to recreate the [world's first browser](https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/) the question of how search came up.

Forms didn't exist at the time during 1990. Tim Berners-Lee had written httpd and

## Notes

- [Early hint of dropping `ISINDEX` and introduction of INPUT](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/1992NovDec/0042.html)
- [HTML 2.0 Forms specification '94](http://download.remysharp.com/archive/HTML-WG/html-archive.messages/152.html)
- [`<queryform>` successor to `ISINDEX` and precursor to `FORM`](http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/archives/WWW-TALK/www-talk-1993q1.messages/79.html)
- [INPUT was pre-web?](https://web.archive.org/web/19970120135440/http://www.eit.com/goodies/lists/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0079.html)
- How did ISINDEX work?
- prompt and action properties
- Example on Lynx and WorldWideWeb

## To read

- https://web.archive.org/web/19970120135440/http://www.eit.com/goodies/lists/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0079.html
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## On designing the web

When thinking about creating the rules that would underlay the web:

> I had to create a system with common rules that would be acceptable to everyone. That meant, as close as possible to no rules at all.
Simplicity always wins, and stripping as much back as possible is the way to that simplicity.

* [Sir Tim Berners-Lee](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCE2EyV_IiY) - 22 Feb 2019

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## Is this the best a man can get?

I know this is (just) a marketing campaign, but it moved me to tears and I love the message it provides and it is one that I would happily play again and again in my head.
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