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I can't really tell if Marc Andreessen were being sarcastic in response to the thread going off towards complexity-land or serious when he wrote this:

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0209.ht...

> Actually, maybe we should think about a general-purpose procedural graphics language within which we can embed arbitrary hyperlinks attached to icons, images, or text, or anything. Has anyone else seen Intermedia's capabilities wrt this? It's one of their most impressive capabilities, actually.

>

>Something like a cross between PostScript and CGM might work... actually, maybe we should just use one or the other, and add the extensions we need for the links. Also we'd want to make sure that it's completely editable.



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