As I understand it Nelson's vision is still not grasped today.
His original hyperlink was bi-directional.
Pause and think about that for a moment.
In practice, at the time, the target in a client-server implementation
had no way to store "return" links pointing to it. The WWW could not
rise to Nelson's ambition. Maybe that's changed today, and we could
certainly rewrite servers or create a more peer-oriented way of going
about things.
The upshot is a totally changed "Web", in which search is
fundamentally different from a centralised index a-la Google.
Will definitely be watching this!
As I understand it Nelson's vision is still not grasped today.
His original hyperlink was bi-directional.
Pause and think about that for a moment.
In practice, at the time, the target in a client-server implementation had no way to store "return" links pointing to it. The WWW could not rise to Nelson's ambition. Maybe that's changed today, and we could certainly rewrite servers or create a more peer-oriented way of going about things.
The upshot is a totally changed "Web", in which search is fundamentally different from a centralised index a-la Google.