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Hyper-G (ftp.isds.tugraz.at)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hyper-G was a distributed hypermedia system developed at the Graz University of Technology in Austria, overshadowed by the World Wide Web and now long forgotten. See this PDF overview article: Hyper-G: A Large Universal Hypermedia System and Some Spin-Offs.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Direct linking PDFs isn't cool.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd like to hear from @[email protected], but if you are right then it's those browsers that are "not cool", and linking a PDF is not the problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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