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We very much would not be working on this if not for your earlier work! However, despite writing a grant proposal in which I had to research the history of back
by pikematchbox 2y ago
We very much would not be working on this if not for your earlier work! However, despite writing a grant proposal in which I had to research the history of backlinks and attempts at implementing them, I had not known about Reversible. And it's super cool to find out about.
A lot of the questions on the "Further questions, problems, observations" list for Reversible are front and center for us, and we're hoping to demonstrate some answers to them as we roll things out to more real world users.
When my collaborator saw this he said "isn't our whole point 2003 had some good ideas that we want to revisit with perspective from today.”
Also -- Memepool was an early fav of mine and an inspiration for https://mothra.click/ https://mothra.click/, which I built in 45 minutes for my wife, who has never owned a smartphone, so I could send her links. Getting lazy about updating it meant "Wanting to post to mothra.click easier" had a non-zero impact on the existence of Octothorpes.
- joshu 2y agoYep. Delicious came from muxway, which itself was built to help with running Memepool…
- pikematchbox 2y agoOh interesting. Were you thinking of the "subjects" on Memepool as tags already?
- joshu 2y agoNot really. Memepool way predated that (1998?)
- pikematchbox 2y agoWas there a clear point where TAGS emerged as a distinct concept to you or was it a more gradual movement from the "subject" days? I read Maciej's account of ingesting A03s giant tag ecosystem in which he quotes you calling tags "a reverse search engine." That stuck with me as an insight that doesn't come up as much in a world where we take tags for granted. Curious how you got from Memepool to there.
- joshu 2y agoIt came from the text file I used to organize links ( the predecessor to muxway, itself the predecessor to del.icio.us)
- pikematchbox 2y agoWas your db a text file?