Show HN: The future of internet? Wormholes and strongly typed URLs
Method:
- Continually printscreen
- OCR from the capture
- Process wormholes
- Only allow specific worms/URL types to run automatically (for security) - this is URL typing
Example: allow "imgur" worms to auto-display pictures hosted from imgur, as a display notification, or ideally (with a compatible browser's plugin) insert into the page where the worm text is situated.
It would look like this: worm://image/imgur/arg1-arg2-...-argn
That can only extract image type, and only images from imgur sources. This is type-safe, and you'll see the notification-image in whatever app you happened to display that text, even inside a 3D app or videogame. It is app-agnostic hypertext links.
How to make it happen right now for increased business productivity:
- use something like Capture2text to OCR printed-screen into copypaste (this is the hard part)
- extract worm links from the copypasted every X seconds using any programming language
- process those links one by one, example: display a picture on the bottom-right corner of the display, using the imgur worm link, without having to click it.
I understand there were security issues but as the years go by and security progresses, this could be useful.