beautiful. please change doublr click to single click when open the folder.
Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
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Re: Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
#122This is really impressive. It's exactly what I imagined the original Microsoft Network in Windows 95 would have been like. And so The Microsoft Network wasn't a program you loaded like CompuServe. It was part of the OS, with folder icons that looked just like real folders. It was a kind of version of the Web where you could browse online data the same way you browsed your file system. This is what made it cool. It wa…
Somehow this reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19249373 released by CERN on 30th anniversary. Pretty sure Berners-Lee in recent years was contributing to decentralized web/Internet concept that does also reminds a little bit of early WWW. There was also this submission from 9 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13361523 - and probably not the only one of such ideas
Are you mabe thinking of Solid[1]? This is an interesting idea, and I have looked into it on several occasions recently, but despite it being around for a really long time it appears to be going exactly nowhere, unfortunately.
It seems a bit of a missed opportunity really. If they had more agressively pursued alliances, it could potentially have been a solid (pun only semi intended) foundation for Mastadon and Bluesky.
The name is unfortunate as well, it is really difficult to search for.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_pr...
Re: Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Presumably none, since its only searching english wikipedia, and that looks to be belarusian.
I don't think most things are ever limited to one language like that. Also, Hacker News doesn't let you delete your own comments?
idk, it appears this thing is, since after clicking around a few times it becomes very obvious all the content is english. Guess that is just how the author of this project decided to make it.
Generally you can delete your comment if its relatively soon after you posted it and nobody replied.
Re: Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think most things are ever limited to one language like that. Also, Hacker News doesn't let you delete your own comments?
idk, it appears this thing is, since after clicking around a few times it becomes very obvious all the content is english. Guess that is just how the author of this project decided to make it. Generally you can delete your comment if its relatively soon after you posted it and nobody replied.
do you get email alerts on comment replys?
Re: Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think most things are ever limited to one language like that. Also, Hacker News doesn't let you delete your own comments?
idk, it appears this thing is, since after clicking around a few times it becomes very obvious all the content is english. Guess that is just how the author of this project decided to make it. Generally you can delete your comment if its relatively soon after you posted it and nobody replied.
or rss? im not really sure what rss is.
Re: Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Talk about data being separate from programs always reminds me what a good job Microsoft did with the spacial filesystem (that means one folder is one window, and they remember their location), single-document interface (a UI paradigm) and COM (a cross-process communication system). As a novice user not understanding a whole lot about the system, your documents were in the operating system and not in a specific progr…
> this still wasn't perfect and a lot of new users did think their documents were in programs, which might be why we gave that up To this day there exist office workers—ones old enough that no, it's not because the were introduced to computers via smartphones—who use a computer for hours every single weekday day but get totally turned around in a file manager, and don't know even the extreme basics like how to copy a…
I think people think this way because they create a new Word document by opening Word. If the only way to create a new document was to right click -> New... -> Word document (a menu that already exists) they'd instantly "get it". That system is intuitive to everyone - there's nothing not to get.
Once you understand how that works, then additionally understanding the new/save/open buttons is trivial, but if you started with the new/save/open buttons you might not get how they work because you'd have to lose your existing wrong understanding. Learning is path-dependent.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Somehow this reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19249373 released by CERN on 30th anniversary. Pretty sure Berners-Lee in recent years was contributing to decentralized web/Internet concept that does also reminds a little bit of early WWW. There was also this submission from 9 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13361523 - and probably not the only one of such ideas
Are you mabe thinking of Solid[1]? This is an interesting idea, and I have looked into it on several occasions recently, but despite it being around for a really long time it appears to be going exactly nowhere, unfortunately. It seems a bit of a missed opportunity really. If they had more agressively pursued alliances, it could potentially have been a solid (pun only semi intended) foundation for Mastadon and Bluesk…
I dug around my bookmarks and now I remember what had in mind: IPFS and Beaker, and ZeroNet along with Solid. And it really seems none of that is active enough to gain any interest.