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Unless I misunderstood, these guys were trying to build something to show today. Did anything come of it? I ask because our startup is working on some of the same things: http://mimix.io

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Since Engelbarts death in 2013 or even the 40th anniversary of the great demo, there is a diverse group of people who for most of the time were unclear whether the human system side or the tool system side should get focus and come first, but in anticipation and preparation of the 50th anniversary, it got more practical and several separate, individual demos were created and will be demoed in a separate event today and during breaks between the celebrations tomorrow. They're listed here:

  - https://thedemoat50.org/symposium/demos/

Some of the history can be found here:

  - https://www.youtube.com/user/frodehegland/playlists (Future of Text playlists, 2014 is on Vimeo)
  - https://ualr.edu/jdberleant/URLtable-DB.html
  - https://soundcloud.com/samhahn/tracks
  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQw8OcRQ0Ws&list=PLYbSlBxcChOJ4KV2XIyR9oydfGzbvm1ai
  - https://doug-50.info/journal/
  - https://jrnl.global/journal/

There's more, spread all over the place.

I created a public wiki style Jupyter notebook on Google's Colab platform where anyone with a Google account can edit and run:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18640656

Since it is a shared programmable (Turing complete) environment, I hope people in the community might find it interesting and would like to contribute and share their expertise and creative insights.

I personally don't like Google, they constantly mess up my writing/publishing and a lot more of bad/evil things. I don't have their software/code, can't selfhost it (not libre-freely licensed), and believe that things should always work offline just as well. Still, do you have a link?

Others in the community usually don't have such reservations/objections, or don't care enough about their own work and capabilities available to them.

The file is just a generic Jupyter Notebook (JSON with .ipynb extension). The link to colab is just an iframe wrap to allow authenticated user to change it.

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1k4oC2bzjgUOiU9vdadj...

Functional wise, it works just like a wiki.

It can be hosted on any Jupyter platform (such as google colab, Azure notebook, your own Jupyter instance) or a Jupyter viewer platform if you do not want to run he code. But you will lose the capability of pushing the update back to the shared copy.

Here is an example of saving it to a github gist and viewed in nbviewer:

https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/gist/ontouchstart/f53de6f9ba447...

Due to the restrictions of GitHub, the YouTube video is not rendered in gist

https://gist.github.com/ontouchstart/f53de6f9ba447bdd60782ef...

Audio recordings of the separate, dedicated demo event on the 2018-12-08 are linked on this page:

    - https://www.thefutureoftext.org/8-december-2018.html

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