Reinventing the Wheels

"As I May Think... How the Read/Write Web was Lost" is a good reminder of how new ideas (ability to read/write a web page by default) isn't practical at first so things have to be scaled down (like read only browsers) before the ideas gain wide spread tractions, and then the original idea is rediscovered (like wiki and blogs) but in a weaker form.

It's sad to see that at least with technologies, ideas have to be reinvented over and over back to sort of square one. Sigh. There really is nothing new under the sun...