Okay, so apparently it's more of a community endeavour with existing tools than a new tool that they've constructed for the purpose. The original WorldWideWeb

Okay, so apparently it's more of a community endeavour with existing tools than a new tool that they've constructed for the purpose. The original WorldWideWeb browser by Berners-Lee actually was able to edit hypertext, although I'm not certain of the specifics. I've wondered a lot why the Web grew up as an authoritarian network -- with DNS and such -- rather than a peer-to-peer hypertext-trading network. The success of sites like Wikipedia show that it's not because people simply don't remix other peoples' content. I think it might have to do instead with the fact that non-server computers are still unreliable and unreliably connected. When I go home from work, my laptop changes IP addresses and is off-line for 20 minutes. One crazy idea for a startup: create the infrastructure so that this isn't an issue. The closest things I know of to a social hypertext site are Wikipedia and Github's blog-and-gist systems, and they don't really solve the problem. One crazy problem with the idea: I really don't see how you'd get a revenue stream out of it.