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Has it really been 14 years? Boy, time flies.
"No closing tag": nice, I wonder how (non-X) html became so unruly ;)
So old school, I love it.
Fascinating reading the entire discussion thread. Andressen proposes a simple tag for embedding images and right away everyone else makes more complicated proposals. Tim Bernes-Lee himself suggests only embedding icons in links. Soon the thread devolves into a discussion on embedding all kinds of media. Think of how boring the web would be if some of the more complicated schemes in that discussion had prevailed over IMG SRC.