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Hyper-G was a distributed hypermedia system developed at the Graz University of Technology in Austria, overshadowed by the World Wide Web and now long forgotten. See this PDF overview article: Hyper-G: A Large Universal Hypermedia System and Some Spin-Offs.

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[-] aperson@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

Direct linking PDFs isn't cool.

[-] amoroso@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Apologies, I didn't know. Can you please elaborate on why?

[-] theolodger@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

I believe it is because it can automatically (depending on the browser) start a download…

[-] signaleleven@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I'd like to hear from @aperson@beehaw.org, but if you are right then it's those browsers that are "not cool", and linking a PDF is not the problem.

[-] theolodger@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

So would I - it does not seem like it would be too much of an issue, though I have seen people complaining about such things in the past…

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