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Written by matt wilkie on 2025-01-31 at 18:08

"the central problem prompting... conceptualize the web was the need for an overlay system enabling fast jumps between hierarchical nodes, essentially, an escape hatch to bypass traversing trees in a strictly ordered, top-to-bottom manner.

So it seems that, strictly speaking, it's not the case that hierarchies cannot model the real world, but hierarchies alone are insufficient ... hierarchies are undeniably doing the heavy lifting at the base layer of systems; this is true both for the system exemplified in Tim's passage and, ultimately, on the web at large."

Exhibit A: Domain Names. everything web is inside a domain tree

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