Navigating Distributed Object Spaces
Back in 2000, I got a chance to demo an environment based on the Morphtron derived FreeDOM architecture at Squeakend 2000. John McIntosh really captured the key ideas. One was
The thought is that the web will become a distributed object oriented space. Then the question is how to interact with it, and how to navigate and how it’s displayed. Squeak gives wonderful control over that, we must exploit that.
Squeakend 2000
At that time the outliner was often in the spotlight and the code base was not as flexible or modular as it is today. Here’s a screenshot from that era:
There’s been a lot of evolution since then - the outliner has taken its place in a larger 3D world but the core concepts have remained the same.
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