• duncesplayed@lemmy.one
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    The big difference between [the WWW] and Hyper-G is Hyper-G’s distributed link server. This server keeps track of all the relations (e.g. links) between Hyper-G objects, allowing for automatic maintenance of the information network. For example, when an object gets deleted, the link server will be able to find and delete all links pointing to the object. In contrast, in Gopher and WWW there is no easy way to find out what other documents are pointing to a given document

    Dear God that sounds horrible and amazing. I’m glad it didn’t catch on, but I really want to see it in action.

    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      The first sentence made me think that maybe it’s something ideologically similar to IPFS and Locutus, but yes, horrible.

    • Paolo AmorosoOP
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      1 year ago

      Such a feature was relatively common on desktop and workstation hypermedia systems.

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      1 year ago

      Apologies, I didn’t know. Can you please elaborate on why?

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        1 year ago

        I believe it is because it can automatically (depending on the browser) start a download…

        • Paolo AmorosoOP
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          1 year ago

          Thanks for the feedback, I edited the submission to move the link to the description.

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          I’d like to hear from @aperson@beehaw.org, but if you are right then it’s those browsers that are “not cool”, and linking a PDF is not the problem.

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            1 year ago

            So would I - it does not seem like it would be too much of an issue, though I have seen people complaining about such things in the past…

    • duncesplayed@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      I disagree. I don’t think it’s the world’s responsibility to cater to someone’s bad browser configuration.