Like the author, I’m not sure what his conclusion is here, but it’s definitely worth a read, and some time spent musing about how the architecture of the web as it has become has a way of shaping how we think (I’m thinking of his main point about links outside the article allowing multiple points of view on an article).
It was also really fun to see a screenshot of KMS!
That was my Dad’s project (with one main partner), and it was probably the first non-game program I ever used. I remember helping make bitmap versions of fonts to ship with it when I was pretty young. I also helped pack the boxes with a paper manual and a 5.25" tape.
It was really a powerful system, it had graphics, flexible layout of text in frames (aka pages) and an integrated scripting language, back in the 80s. I know the US Navy used it on aircraft carriers, but I don’t know what for.
There’s a new version being worked on by the other guy, called Expeditee
Similarly, every browser implements the consumptive HTTP verb GET, and POST for sending info… but not PUT or DELETE. A browser is very much a browser and not an editor.
There’s a bit of a false dichotomy between memex (external links) and internet (internal links), isn’t there? As a reader, I can create my own document linking to whatever I like. Yes, the authors of some documents have included internal links (perhaps for my convenience, perhaps for their own) but I am not prevented from creating external links.
I guess the federated wiki is introduced as a solution, but I don’t think the situation is nearly as dire as the last paragraph of section 2 would imply. Why can’t there simply be a “technology of Polaroid” page and a “evils of Polaroid” page?
Like the author, I’m not sure what his conclusion is here, but it’s definitely worth a read, and some time spent musing about how the architecture of the web as it has become has a way of shaping how we think (I’m thinking of his main point about links outside the article allowing multiple points of view on an article).
It was also really fun to see a screenshot of KMS!
That was my Dad’s project (with one main partner), and it was probably the first non-game program I ever used. I remember helping make bitmap versions of fonts to ship with it when I was pretty young. I also helped pack the boxes with a paper manual and a 5.25" tape.
It was really a powerful system, it had graphics, flexible layout of text in frames (aka pages) and an integrated scripting language, back in the 80s. I know the US Navy used it on aircraft carriers, but I don’t know what for. There’s a new version being worked on by the other guy, called Expeditee
Yeah - I found it very thought-inducing. It’s much more of a question than an answer, and that’s perfectly okay.
Similarly, every browser implements the consumptive HTTP verb GET, and POST for sending info… but not PUT or DELETE. A browser is very much a browser and not an editor.
There’s a bit of a false dichotomy between memex (external links) and internet (internal links), isn’t there? As a reader, I can create my own document linking to whatever I like. Yes, the authors of some documents have included internal links (perhaps for my convenience, perhaps for their own) but I am not prevented from creating external links.
I guess the federated wiki is introduced as a solution, but I don’t think the situation is nearly as dire as the last paragraph of section 2 would imply. Why can’t there simply be a “technology of Polaroid” page and a “evils of Polaroid” page?