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Re:The Call of the Ocean: Hypertext, Universal and Open (1988) by pjc50 on Monday March 09, 2020 @07:57AM (#22524659)
The early 2000s blog community invented "trackback" for that purpose, but what Nelson didn't forsee was the inevitable problem of a truly open system: spam and other abuse.
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Re:The Call of the Ocean: Hypertext, Universal and Open (1988) by Firadeoclus on Monday March 09, 2020 @11:30AM (#22526172)
Indeed, what is possible to do in a private or moderated/curated web is quite different from the limits of an open web.
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Re:The Call of the Ocean: Hypertext, Universal and Open (1988) by fulafel on Monday March 09, 2020 @11:17PM (#22532453)
The built in micropayments would have changed the abuse landscape and need for ads/spam in general.
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