Thread by @roamhacker

1/ Adding my voice to urge Maggie to finish this blog post on Xanadu.

Reminds me of the statement: "All Of This Has Happened Before And Will Happen Again"-BG

The truth is there are many "new" technologies that were already well understood decades ago.

#roamcult @RoamResearch

https://twitter.com/Mappletons/status/1319552543580688386

2/ Example one: Project Xanadu (Structuring data, bidirectional links) first hypertext project in 1960 by @TheTedNelson
+ nonsequential writing (writing with block refs, no folders)
+ zippered lists (Roam Multiplayer)
+ tumblers: any part of a file to be referenced (Block UID)

3/ Example two: (1960's, 70's) Graph databases (Roam under the hood)
+ Nodes (Blocks)
+ Edges (Bidirectional links/block refs)
+ Properties (Creation/edit dates, user, block characteristics: open, closed, heading)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_dat…

4/ Why now? If so many concepts were already previously explored, why is there such a strong movement today for them? To summarize a complicated subject, I give two reasons:
REASON 1) Every day users are finally ready for these advanced (but intuitive) concepts, not just us geeks

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REASON 2) Foundation technologies needed are finally in place. (Ex: infinite processing & storage, timeless db's, structural sharing). Geek out on @richhickey lecture -don't watch for Datomic, watch to understand how the way we think of data has changed

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The problems we want solved looks simple on the surface, but there are a lot of problems Roam is solving for us & will solve.

What do you think: Can we learn from the past? Is it time to bring these ideas into the present and beyond?

This is the journey (Roam) we are on.