Hyper-G Organizes the Web (1995)

[pmlnr]

https://much.isds.tugraz.at/projects/hyper-g/9.htm/

[foobarbecue]

"keeps surfers from getting lost in cyberspace"! The web was such a magical mystery in the 90s.

[mmoez]

On the second page, you can read "Why the Web won't work"...

https://much.isds.tugraz.at/projects/hyper-g/10.htm/

Most of their criticism is spot-on. But Google for example managed to build an empire from one of the shortcomings of the Web they've listed: the lack of full text search in servers.

[em-bee → mmoez]

yup, it's tcp vs OSI model, vhs vs betamax.

hyper-g had the better solution, but http+html was easier to implement so it took off.