Networking

Teledata (United States of America)

-due to president webster (American Presidents > 1845-1852 Daniel Webster (Democratic) †) nationalizing Telegraphy patent, telecom owned by govt as part of post office
-as a result, very sluggish improvement in telecom, also since no WWII analogue
-as part of modernization, teledata, something a lot like minitel, made
-recently adapted to conform with other standards

Réstéf (French Republic)

-Réseau de Transfert des Électro-Fiches (Réstéf) or something
-Mundaneum becomes a big thing, and it makes a large index system with index cards to associate, eventually digitized
-also to allow for creation of Encyclopedia Universalis Mundaneum (EUM) in which documents decomposed into constituent elements by "monographic principle" are reduced to cards, and then placed into encyclopedia and organizable

-here, associations (links) are bidirectional - when association made to a fiche, owner of that pile gets a notification and can display them (with allowlists and denylists and all that)

-each association associated with an indice, a card which pops up whenever an association is pressed

-with a description and a link to the other webpage (along with a date and a snippet of it)

-also, transclusion fully workable

-company responsible decides it looks cool, markets it to other places, resulting in hypertext with a fair amount of networking
-results in world wide web equivalent consisting of "fiche" pages with websites referred as decks

-and when cards loadable in a row to make a page, called a "hand"

-and links can be made to any block (as they all have unique addresses, which die if block remade)

-quick adoption in france, europe, around the world and linked to teledata

(China)

-need to take into account hundreds of characters