Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, thinks it can still be saved — despite some parts being 'optimized for nastiness'

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• Tehdastehdas@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  WWW was crap right from the start - it works like a paper pile, chaotic, needs search engines to work. It was made for publishing only. It doesn’t work for anything else except through ugly hacks added on top of it.

  The much earlier invention, Memex, was designed for crowd work on all human knowledge. It remembers knowledge and its creation process to be immediately learned from and built upon. It self-organises, integrating added information to the common knowledge tree.

  Other earlier inventions superior to WWW are Xanadu Web by Ted Nelson, and Dynabook/Smalltalk by Alan Kay.

  The sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration
  https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

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• jessicablaze@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What internet is Tim using? The vast majority is nasty or exploitive.

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_project) it mentions peer to peer but nothing on this authentication it has. Only thing that would make sense to me is something like the distributed ledger:

  In more detail, Solid consists of the following components:

  An organized collection of standards and data formats/vocabularies providing the same capabilities that centralized social media services offer, such as identity, authentication, login, permission lists, contact management, messaging, feed subscriptions, comments, discussions, and others.
  Specifications and design notes describing a REST API to extend existing standards, to guide developers building servers or applications.
  Servers that implement the Solid specification.
  A test suite for testing and validating Solid implementations.
  An ecosystem of social applications, identity providers, and helper libraries that run on the Solid platform.
  A community providing documentation, discussion, tutorials, and presentations.
  

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