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While I always been a great fan of Ted Nelson, his vision does not include distributed cryptographic filestores, where documents do not reside on individual ser
by eleitl 17y ago
While I always been a great fan of Ted Nelson, his vision does not include distributed cryptographic filestores, where documents do not reside on individual servers, and where individual servers are in fact completely invisible and redundant.
- omouse 17y ago>his vision does not include distributed cryptographic filestores, where documents do not reside on individual servers, and where individual servers are in fact completely invisible and redundant. The vision of the Web doesn't include those either.
- abecedarius 17y agoIIRC one of the Xanadu hackers invented or reinvented the idea of the cryptohash of a document as a self-verifying identifier for the kind of lookup you mention. Are you sure that was not in the vision, even if Nelson himself was not so technical? (How I remember this: it came up on a mailing list (cap-talk?) when people were looking for prior art to challenge a patent. I may have it wrong.)
- evgen 17y agoYes, it was one of the Xanadu hackers who came up with that one (but it was never published and stayed internal to that group.) Post-Xanadu the idea migrated to Joule, Inc. then to Electric Communities, then MojoNation, and after that it just became the way things were done...