I agree. In fact, I find myself looking at Classic Mac OS's resource fork and feeling profoundly sad that it feel by the wayside as *nix took over the world. T

I agree. In fact, I find myself looking at Classic Mac OS's resource fork and feeling profoundly sad that it feel by the wayside as *nix took over the world. The resource fork was a beautiful idea; structured data built into the filesystem itself, and I wonder what the computing world would have looked like if it was used by the dominant operating system of the Internet instead of a sideshow.