Lost in Hyperspace

It’s easy to get lost in the vast world wide web. This tag tracks proposed solutions that help us find our bearings in hyperspace.

Unfortunately, some web users find echo chambers and cling on to them.

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Oct 13, 2021	»	Towards a Collaborative Web Browser 3 min; updated Feb 12, 2023 One of the grand dreams of the web is bringing people together so that they may find relevant information. Sometimes this is implicit, e.g. Google Search’s PageRank learns from inter-page links which are mostly made by people, but there may be room for explicit collaboration when navigating the web. This section explores such explicit attempts. #lost-in-hyperspace A Group Asynchronous Browsing (GAB) Server Premise: Users submit their subject hierarchies (bookmarks) to the GAB server....
Nov 5, 1996	»	A Zooming Web Browser 4 min; updated Sep 5, 2022 A Zooming Web Browser. Bederson, Benjamin B.; Hollan, James D.; Stewart, Jason; Rogers, David; Vick, David; Ring, Laura; Grose, Eric; Forsythe, Chris. Multimedia Computing and Networking, 1996. Vol. 2667. www.osti.gov . www.connectedpapers.com . Interesting because these were the early days of the web, back when Netscape was king. The web could have evolved in different ways. Why didn’t the zooming browser catch on? Problem Context Navigating the web presents a struggle between focus and context....