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IIRC 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
by abecedarius 17y ago
IIRC 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...