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What if the Web was filesystem-accessible?
- janitor61 9y agoSo, Gopher 2.0?
- dredmorbius 9y agoAt least 2.1. The proposal goes into more depth. If you've any commentary to make on the substance, I'd be interested in hearing it.
- Upvoter33 9y agoold idea: at least as old as https://users.cs.duke.edu/~vahdat/webfs/webfs.html https://users.cs.duke.edu/~vahdat/webfs/webfs.html
- dredmorbius 9y agoAs I note conspicuously, the idea is not new. The Plan 9 OS 9P protocol dates even earlier, to at least 1992: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=506413 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=506413 My objective is not originality. It's utility.
- dredmorbius 9y agoOriginal author. This remains a project I'm considering, though I'm looking to have a solid understanding both of how we got here, and how dynamics might be changed.
- kensanata 9y agoFor some long term perspective, I liked Kris' blog post "On cache problems, and what they mean for the future" ending with the following passage: "That challenges the fundamental abstraction of Unix, though, because in Unix everything is a file, which is a linear array of bytes, and is being accessed through a file handle. Now, with Optane persistent data may be no longer behind a file handle, but a special kind of memory, and data does not have to be crystallized into serialized structures before persistence. In fact, the memory may be so fast that we might not have time to do that. We require a different compute abstraction instead. Which means, when we have it, the result will finally, after five decades, not really Unix any more." http://blog.koehntopp.info/index.php/1960-on-cache-problems-and-what-they-mean-for-the-future/ http://blog.koehntopp.info/index.php/1960-on-cache-problems-...
- paulus_magnus2 9y agonext question is what if web was a collection of APIs. Imagine every website was api-fied so that we could automate complex flows / interactions and orchestrate across multiple websites. I am contemplating doing a MVP of this as a side-project.
- BerislavLopac 9y agoI actually started a project for something like that a while ago; perhaps it might make sense to resurrect it...
- dredmorbius 9y agoThat would be wonderful. I'm not holding my breath...