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“inline pictures (which might be big)”
http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0188.html
thirty years ago, they were discussing a new HTML tag: <img>
@hikari This is a fascinating read...
Marc Andreessen: Here's a new tag, IMG, what do you think?
<Internet Masters>: We don't like it, it's a bit of a hack
MA: Well we're going to release the next version of Mosaic with it
<Internet Masters>: Maybe we could do something like this… or this...
MA: Announcing X Mosaic supporting IMG!
@colinburgess that's one way to read it, but it doesn't really seem like there was any particular consensus to me. everyone in the thread was proposing a completely different syntax
@hikari ha yeah. Perhaps I shouldn’t have grouped them all together as internet masters. My feeling was that people were just implementing things themselves and hoping that their way would prevail.
@hikari also shocking to me that they were still ironing out images then… I’m trying to remember what year I first built xmosaic … maybe it was 1994?