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this stuff was huge for a while, 20-25 years ago, digital libraries, information exploration, ... consider even things like minority report, or more prosaically

by trgn 2mo ago

this stuff was huge for a while, 20-25 years ago, digital libraries, information exploration, ... consider even things like minority report, or more prosaically, all the demos coming out of MIT medialab. It never really caught on, completed got clobbered by free text search, now AI chat interfaces I guess. Am glad to see it bubble up again, because have good memories working on this stuff.

projektfu 2mo ago
I am too lazy to do the work but in that time frame I considered that a zooming/hierarchical view would be a nice way to browse the web, with followed links appearing as new pages next to the current page. The web became too dynamic for that anyway.
- hn_acc1 2mo ago
  OS/2 Warp's browser did that - it kept a tree of parent and child nodes (indented) as a history type of thing..
stronglikedan 2mo ago
> this stuff was huge for a while, 20-25 years ago If I recall correctly, it became popular because of the Lawnmower Man movie in '92.
- trgn 2mo ago
  didnt know, it's on my watchlist now!
- stelonix 2mo ago
  I always think of Johnny Mnemonic when I see such interfaces. One of the reasons I got into computers as kid. Hackers (1995) also had a great (Hollywood) computer interface that shares some similarities with it.