1 - Introduction
The advent of the World-Wide Web offers an essentially new medium for the dissemination of information. Such a distributed hypertext multimedia environment is likely to provide the right conditions for the evolution of a new document genre. Just as the novel, the most natural expression of the printed book medium, could not be conceived before the invention of cheap printing, neither can such a genre grow without the coming of age of WWW.
However, the evolution of a native WWW document genre does not mean that there is no place for the more conventional documents on the Web. Similarly, transposing this observation to printed documents, there is still a function and purpose for the numerous types of printed documents that could be much more useful when coupled to the functionality of WWW, e.g. extensively indexed reference manuals.
BR, MR - CERN PTG - 31 May 1994
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