Something that I couldn't find much information on.. How exactly did the editing work? Could I edit a file and then once I'd saved the changes whoever went to the file next would also see my edits?
How did this all work? For me, this is absolutely fascinating and I guess in some ways this reminds me of modern wiki software (especially something like vimwiki that I use daily).
If anyone has some 'technical' resources about how this browser worked, I'd love to read it.
PUT, DELETE, etc were part of HTTP/1.1. The WorldWideWeb browser (later called Nexus) was created during the time of HTTP 0.9 (or rather the versionless HTTP).
I spoke to a few of the people involved in the original 1990s project and one big issue was authentication into servers was way too complex.
The simulation (I wrote the JavaScript for it), writes to local browser storage (IndexedDB), the original WorldWideWeb would write to disk (networked or local).
How did this all work? For me, this is absolutely fascinating and I guess in some ways this reminds me of modern wiki software (especially something like vimwiki that I use daily).
If anyone has some 'technical' resources about how this browser worked, I'd love to read it.