All software is quite useless according to Tim Berners-Lee

[boyofbadgers]

Who the hell thought it was a good idea to make backspace a keyboard shortcut for back in web browsers?

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[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Who the hell thought it was a good idea to make backspace a keyboard shortcut for back in web browsers?

I'd have thought Marc Andreessen and co at the NCSA in Illinois, given they invented browsers as we know them and that that's been there since Mosaic 1.0...

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I suspected that it might go back that far, but since I've never used the shortcut intentionally, and that it's been at least 14 years since I last used Mosaic, I hesitate to trust my own memories of lost form data.