Re: HTML better for small PDAs

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood at eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:52:51 GMT, graham.travers at bt.com said:
> > > 1) Was your millenia-old data *written in XML*, or was it *converted to*
> > > XML
> > > within the past 5 years?
> 
> > 	This is not a valid argument.  Egyptian Hieroglyphs were not written
> > in ASCII either !
> 
> Actually, it *is* a valid argument - consider that hieroglyphs were
> unreadable until they found the Rosetta Stone.  The media lasted, but the
> ability to parse didn't.

That content turned out pretty useless anyway, since the Egyptians had
a tendency to stick up and annotate monuments for battles they were
yet to fight, so that they'd be ready in time for the victory
celebrations.

The true insights into a civilisation are found in its ephemera.

L.

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