They mostly do not gain a lot of users. Good luck!

this stuff was huge for a while, 20-25 years ago, digital libraries, information exploration, ... consider even things like minority report, or more prosaically, all the demos coming out of MIT medialab.

It never really caught on, completed got clobbered by free text search, now AI chat interfaces I guess.

Am glad to see it bubble up again, because have good memories working on this stuff.

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stronglikedan 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> this stuff was huge for a while, 20-25 years ago

If I recall correctly, it became popular because of the Lawnmower Man movie in '92.

	▲	trgn 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		didnt know, it's on my watchlist now!

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projektfu 37 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I am too lazy to do the work but in that time frame I considered that a zooming/hierarchical view would be a nice way to browse the web, with followed links appearing as new pages next to the current page. The web became too dynamic for that anyway.

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esafak 37 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I think (work)spaces like macOS Spaces because they make access easier; with a single continuous space you have to work, whereas a workspace is a hotkey away. They make for nice demos and movie scenes though.

After having used such things since the 80s (starting with DESQview) I find myself simply minimizing or leaving secondary applications in the background of a single workspace. When I do use other spaces it is for full screen view. I don't usually need to see multiple windows at the same time, but that would be a task for a tiling manager...