Decades after hyperlinks transformed humanity's information and text into a densely-linked graph, mainstream OSs have yet to afford users their benefits in personal computing.
Vision and Reality of Hypertext and GUIs: 2.1.13 Microcosm @mprove
Microcosm (cf. 2.1.13) is a research project at the University of Southampton. Like Intermedia five years before, Microcosm is designed around the idea that material of diverse sources and formats should be tied together into one hypertext. To achieve this goal links have to be separated from the documents. They are stored and maintained in special link databases. In contrast to Intermedia, Microcosm plays the active role in gathering the necessary data out of the documents. For each topic it stores data on which documents contain information about it and also where inside the documents the information is located. This elaborated conception of links can be seen more as a kind of Memex’ trails than simple one-to-one links. Given this structure dynamic linking becomes possible. This means that links can be associated with generic text strings. Wherever this string shows up a link is placed automatically. This has the effect that documents that are imported for the first time into Microcosm can have links immediately.
Tim Berners-Lee, Giant Global Graph (2007)
A new vision for the web where the users master their data and link them to everybody's benefit in a giant global graph.
MICROCOSM: An Open Hypermedia Environment for Information Integration.
This report examines open hypermedia systems, and argues that such systems provide users with richer and more diverse ways to access and integrate information from large and dynamic data sets in a distributed, heterogeneous environment. In particular, the enhanced Microcosm model for open hypermedia is examined, and the ways in which it provides such an environment are discussed. The paper continues by investigating the advantages and the short comings of this model and identifies areas in which further work must be completed before such systems can become widely adopted, in particular the granularity of link anchors, editing, and version control. Possible solutions to these problems are presented and discussed.
The Subversive Hyperlink
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
AT Explore
Explore and discover AT Protocol data with our fast, user-friendly browser. Search posts, profiles, and feeds across the decentralized social web — including apps like Bluesky.
Jared Goering on Twitter / X
Saw this and immediately built it. Open-sourced the whole thing:Ingest URLs, PDFs, tweets, images → LLM compiles a linked markdown wiki → Q&A with citations, knowledge graph, contradiction linting, auto-research, export to HTML/PDF/slides.Been using it nonstop as a personal… https://t.co/ypaXlEA7pn pic.twitter.com/8Z2DLAyQjH— Jared Goering (@jaredgoering) April 4, 2026
Home - Nos: The Human Network
A decentralised mesh of communities and individuals built by and for the people. Nos is social media for humans, not algorithms.
Introducing Ringspace: A Proposal for the Human Web
For months, I've been working on a project to demonstrate how we can preserve humanity on the web. It's finally ready for testing.
Hyperlink Academy
It's a lightweight collaborative publishing tool for quick tiny docs that can grow into rich creative surfaces ✨🌱
A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed | TechCrunch
HyperTexting's new app aims to make the open web feel more like social media by turning websites, blogs, newsletters, and podcasts into a scrollable feed, while also making it easier to post to your own website.
A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed | TechCrunch
HyperTexting's new app aims to make the open web feel more like social media by turning websites, blogs, newsletters, and podcasts into a scrollable feed, while also making it easier to post to your own website.
Building on some of @chrisshank.com's work, what if we had browsers that were atproto-native? orange link = in your PDS green link = in the PDS of someone you follow Dreaming about the future of social hypertext ✨
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A web extension that colors any link you've saved on @semble.so orange.
