Append only; the ideal internet would never forget. Persistent databases such as Datomic make that feasible. Websites would be views on top of those DBs. APIs w

Append only; the ideal internet would never forget. Persistent databases such as Datomic make that feasible. Websites would be views on top of those DBs. APIs would be a thing of the past as we'd just subscribe to a service's public dataset. Homoiconic; code would be part of the internet. Views on datasets would themselves be stored in a persistent database. Clients would simply subscribe to the code feed and can update automatically, while still being able choose to run old clients, apps er even just particular versions of functions. Conversational; interactions between services consist of exchanges of immutable data between services (just like conversations.) I publish some code; you publish your interactions with that code. I publish a question; you publish an answer to that question. This has the added benefit of being able to map it onto existing encrypted communication protocols like OTR.