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Re:A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the I... by lainga on Thursday April 15, 2021 @12:36PM (#26822751)
Are you familiar with the author or does the Tweet mention him? He would famously go on to spend a large part of his career attempting to implement something roughly like this paper describes, and inspired by the Memex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu

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Re:A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the I... by Smaug123 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @12:44PM (#26822881)
Oh, amazing - I knew the name in a "that rings a bell" way, and I knew what Project Xanadu was, but I didn't realise they were linked! Thanks :)
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Re:A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the I... by gumby on Thursday April 15, 2021 @01:16PM (#26823372)
> but I didn't realise they were linked!

I see what you did there.

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