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Hyper-G (ftp.isds.tugraz.at)
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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the feedback, I edited the submission to move the link to the description.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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…