Ended up in quite the research rabbit hole exploring the historical origins of Bi-directional links this week.
Involves Project Xanadu, early internet spats, and Memex machines.
Sketched out some of the basic concepts and wrote up a little garden note: maggieappleton.com/bidirectionals
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I went down a similar rabbit hole after reading this. Man Project Xanadu is fascinating!
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😍😍😍 thank you!
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No, have a link?
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Thanks for this overview of the history of bi-directional links, really nice to read.
Dyou think Webmentions might be an approach to bi-directional links across sites? (doubleloop.net/t/1vc)
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Yeah webmentions are certainly part of this ecosystem, and I’ll likely keep expanding this page and talk about bidirectionals between sites.
This was just an initial research dump and stuck to focusing On internal bidirectionals. But plenty more to explore!
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