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Maybe the time will come for another document viewer. Resurrect gopher? Reuse epub? Steal from Xanadu?

It should at least fix some mistakes of the web. The core challenge is to define what was a mistake and what was not.

Built-in micro-payments, so we don't have to rely on Ads? This did not work out anywhere so far. Maybe with Bitcoin it is different today? Alternatively, should all information be free and everybody just pays with bandwidth?

Should links be uni-directional? Or bi-directional? And can we fix link-rot then?




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