Rule-breakers: the podcast about disruption in digital publishing.
Every month, Rule-breakers host, Sean McGrath dives into the fascinating world of digital publishing, exploring how technology is reshaping a very important part of modern life: the way we create and access laws, standards, and guidance. If you’re curious about the forces affecting change in this space, you’re in the right place.
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Rule-breakers: the podcast about disruption in digital publishing.
Every month, Rule-breakers host, Sean McGrath dives into the fascinating world of digital publishing, exploring how technology is reshaping a very important part of modern life: the way we create and access laws, standards, and guidance. If you’re curious about the forces affecting change in this space, you’re in the right place.
Ep #9: The Web Before Google: Liam Quin on HoTMetaL, XML, and the First Web Standards
Rule-Breakers
1 hour 11 minutes
5 days ago
Ep #9: The Web Before Google: Liam Quin on HoTMetaL, XML, and the First Web Standards
The latest episode of Rule-Breakers features Liam Quin a pioneering figure in the world of electronic publishing and generalized markup. In this conversation, we learn about Liam’s journey from a childhood fascination with typesetting that started with the fonts used in his copy of The Lord of the Rings, to a lifelong passion for digital documents that included working at the W3C on the XML standard. Liam and Sean explore the early days of structured content, the massive buzz that surrounded the emergence of the Web, the early Mosaic web browser, the world’s first HTML editor (HoTMetaL) and much more.
Rule-Breakers
Rule-breakers: the podcast about disruption in digital publishing.
Every month, Rule-breakers host, Sean McGrath dives into the fascinating world of digital publishing, exploring how technology is reshaping a very important part of modern life: the way we create and access laws, standards, and guidance. If you’re curious about the forces affecting change in this space, you’re in the right place.
