GMPG
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GMPG or Global Multimedia Protocols Group is an informal organization who engages in experiments in Metamemetics.
It was first mentioned in 1992 by author Neal Stephenson
in his novel Snow Crash
.
GMPG was founded by Tantek Çelik
, Eric Meyer
, and Matthew Mullenweg
who developed the initial principles for XFN, the XHTML Friends Network
as an attempt for the creation of a simple way to express human relationships on the Web within HTML
(machine-readable).
attribute "rel", which is used within the "A" element for hyperlinks.
It was first mentioned in 1992 by author Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson
Neal Town Stephenson is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction.Difficult to categorize, his novels have been variously referred to as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and postcyberpunk...
in his novel Snow Crash
Snow Crash
Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's third novel, published in 1992. Like many of Stephenson's other novels it covers history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics, and philosophy....
.
GMPG was founded by Tantek Çelik
Tantek Çelik
Tantek Çelik is a computer scientist of Turkish-American descent and was the Chief Technologist at Technorati. He is one of the principal editors of several CSS Specifications....
, Eric Meyer
Eric Meyer
Eric A. Meyer is an American web design consultant and author. He is best known for his advocacy work on behalf of web standards, most notably Cascading Style Sheets , a technique for managing how HTML is displayed...
, and Matthew Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg
Matthew Charles Mullenweg is an online social media entrepreneur, web developer and musician living in San Francisco, California. He is best known for his development of the free and open source web software, WordPress...
who developed the initial principles for XFN, the XHTML Friends Network
XHTML Friends Network
XHTML Friends Network is an HTML microformat developed by Global Multimedia Protocols Group that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links. XFN enables web authors to indicate relationships to the people in their blogrolls by adding one or more keywords as the rel...
as an attempt for the creation of a simple way to express human relationships on the Web within HTML
HTML
HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
(machine-readable).
XFN - XHTML Friends Network
XFN provides a list of non-standard attribute values for the HTMLHTML
HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
attribute "rel", which is used within the "A" element for hyperlinks.