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So to summarise, from what I can gather by browsing the various links, it is essentially the web but with a built in payment system for document publishers, and
by sbmassey 7y ago
So to summarise, from what I can gather by browsing the various links, it is essentially the web but with a built in payment system for document publishers, and mechanisms for publishing new documents using sections of existing documents. What did I miss?
- uxp100 7y agoLinks go both ways (is one way to put it) and the historical aspect I guess.
- theamk 7y agoThe links never go bad because you should never delete data. Also old versions are kept forever.
- crististm 7y agoHow do you reconcile this with the reality of systems breaking? To make it work then you just can't rule out by fiat a hard-disk breakage as one of the simplest adversarial conditions to the model.
- theamk 7y agoPresumably by replicating extensively? How this was supposed to work in 1960 tech (and storage prices), I have no idea. Xanadu is full of missing pieces like this one. There is a reason it never took off.
- slightwinder 7y agoI thinks today it's more a wiki-styled CMS with block-based documents for DRM & Payment, plus automatic content-proxys. Though, some of the ideas were around with WWW too, like traceback/pingback for back-communications between documents, or builtin editing in early web-browsers. But the world evolved different.