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I thinks today it's more a wiki-styled CMS with block-based documents for DRM & Payment, plus automatic content-proxys. Though, some of the ideas were around with WWW too, like traceback/pingback for back-communications between documents, or builtin editing in early web-browsers. But the world evolved different.

The links never go bad because you should never delete data. Also old versions are kept forever.

How do you reconcile this with the reality of systems breaking?

To make it work then you just can't rule out by fiat a hard-disk breakage as one of the simplest adversarial conditions to the model.

Presumably by replicating extensively? How this was supposed to work in 1960 tech (and storage prices), I have no idea.

Xanadu is full of missing pieces like this one. There is a reason it never took off.

Links go both ways (is one way to put it) and the historical aspect I guess.