I was browsing the "hyperproceedings" of the 6th International...

I was browsing the "hyperproceedings" of the 6th International World Wide Web Conference from 1997 and found this cool paper that proposes a method for servers to collaborate on tasks together in decentralized and asynchronous ways:

https://web.archive.org/web/19980215071250/http://www6.nttlabs.com/HyperNews/get/PAPER45.html

It's very "fediverse" and it's actually giving me some new design ideas...

(Stumbled on this conference because I follow the wayback_exe bot on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/wayback_exe/status/1547466013792473089 )

Like 14 Jul 2022 at 15:37 | Open on friend.camp

6 comments

Trevor Flowers

@darius From my initial skim this is interesting, especially given the context of the era. We've had the ideas of a fediverse from the start but (for the web community, anyway) they mostly evaporated in the dot.com boom.

14 Jul 2022 at 23:11 | Open on widerweb.org

Darius Kazemi

BTW that bot is now available on fediverse thanks to its author!

@wayback_exe

15 Jul 2022 at 0:23 | Open on friend.camp

wakest ⁂

@darius @wayback_exe ohhhhh I love that bot I'm glad its here I was already following it on Twitter

16 Jul 2022 at 11:25 | Open on social.wake.st

Will 🌹🏴

@darius I bet @cwebber would enjoy this

15 Jul 2022 at 1:50 | Open on social.coop

#WikiParty

@darius Seems to overlap in purpose with the semantic web proposed a few years later, which has never quite reached fruition.

15 Jul 2022 at 15:20 | Open on campaign.openworlds.info

Sebastian Lasse

@darius

Well, in 1 of the past 10 ActivityPub meetings we did also talk about how to “Describe Potential Actions of Objects” natively in ActivityPub cause Evan and James already thought about it for AS …

Please note the CFP for upcoming FediCamp https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fedicamp-2022-call-for-proposals/2510

17 Jul 2022 at 22:05 | Open on digitalcourage.social