from Hacker News

The future of internet? Wormholes and strongly typed URLs

by anon012012 on 1/10/23, 1:53 PM with 1 comments

Worms are URL which are allowed to pop from the page into any other process beyond the browser.

Method:

- Continually printscreen

- OCR or image detection

- Process wormholes according to standardized types/archetypes

- Only allow specific worms/URL types from those to run automatically (for security)

Example: allow imgur worms to auto-display imgur pictures as a display notification, or ideally (as a compatible browser's plugin) insert into the page where the worm text is situated, beyond what the webpage initially allows. This gives power to the user.

I always get downvoted for having controversial ideas but this time I have the agreement of ChatGPT/OpenAI so I feel vindicated already.

Here's what it says about the idea of internet wormholes:

https://imgur.com/UZnU5c8

  • by emocin on 1/10/23, 2:09 PM

    Uh.