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People in tech undervalue what older communities offer. If the discussion group hasn't become a wasteland after a few years, there is something there.
Data is the second problem - you usually can't run a notebook without it. If the notebook transforms data over time, it can be a real issue.
Here's a pretty complete run down of the first problem, the .ipynb itself: https://nextjournal.com/schmudde/how-to-version-control-jupy...
An integrated solution that versions data, the notebook, and the computational environment (collaborators will make changes over time) is the ideal collaborative platform.
Seems like an odd request in 1993. Sure, Prodigy had visual impact, but it was pretty hard to read. HTML's starkness seems in part due to the fact that styling options were limited by the technology and the ones that existed were easily abused.
Writing long sentences as headers (<h1>) or all-caps (caps-lock) were styling options at the time... and often misunderstood and abused.
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