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All you need is links
Edgelessness is in the web’s structure: it’s comprised of individual pages linked together, so its structure can branch out forever.
Frank Chimero • Frank Chimero · The Web’s Grain
The internet itself has thrived because of native internet protocols that we use everyday, like http, ftp, tcp, and ssh. One of the reasons these protocols have been so successful was that they were widely adopted and not subject to change. If I build a site using http, people can use it without any centralized intermediary - we can trust that it i... See more
Nader Dabit • The New Creator Economy - DAOs, Community Ownership, and Cryptoeconomics
Unlike the main public internet, which runs on the (human) protocol of “users” clicking on links on public pages/apps maintained by “publishers”, the cozyweb works on the (human) protocol of everybody cutting-and-pasting bits of text, images, URLs, and screenshots across live streams. Much of this content is poorly addressable, poorly searchable, a... See more
Venkatesh Rao • The Extended Internet Universe
As the web grew, its linking structure accumulated a mind-boggling value. It treated the aggregate of all its contents as a huge compost of ideas, any one of which could be reached by the act of connecting one document to another.