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AP0110 Knowledge Graph

The Wiki

A small, public knowledge graph tracing the lineage of the Independent Internet — the people, ideas, and primary documents behind decentralized computing.

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DocsWiki

This wiki is a small, public knowledge graph. The source library holds one page per primary document; these synthesized pages connect them into a single story. Explore them visually on the Web 4.0 page.

The thesis

The Independent Internet (Web 4.0) is the Internet as it was intended to be — decentralized, resilient, self-hosted, and free of corporate surveillance. It is the latest turn in sixty years of ideas.

The lineage

Threads

Decentralization across the lineage · The governance of agent-readable standards · Compounding knowledge vs. retrieval

Sources (23)

One page per primary document — papers, specs, and reports — that the synthesized pages below draw on.

Analyses (19)

  1. 1776

    The Declaration of Independence · on The Declaration of Independence

    Legitimate power derives from the consent of the governed — the oldest document in the library, and the premise the rest of the lineage keeps rediscovering.

  2. 1787

    The Constitution of the United States · on The Constitution of the United States

    Governance as architecture: power divided, limited, written down, and amendable — with the Bill of Rights guaranteeing individuals against the system itself.

  3. 1960

    Man-Computer Symbiosis · on Man-Computer Symbiosis

    Licklider's foundational vision of humans and computers as coupled partners, not master and tool — the conceptual seed of interactive computing.

  4. 1962

    Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework · on Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework

    Engelbart's SRI report laying out a systematic program for using computers to raise human problem-solving capability.

  5. 1963

    Memorandum For Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network · on Memorandum For Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network

    Licklider's memo naming a shared, interconnected community of computers — a rhetorical precursor to the internet.

  6. 1989

    Information Management: A Proposal · on Information Management: A Proposal

    Berners-Lee's CERN memo proposing a decentralized web of typed nodes and links — the document the World Wide Web grew from.

  7. 1994

    robots.txt — Robots Exclusion Protocol · on robots.txt — Robots Exclusion Protocol

    The original machine-readable web standard: a plain-text file at a site's root telling crawlers which paths they may visit. Advisory, not enforced.

  8. 2005

    Sitemaps Protocol (sitemap.xml) · on Sitemaps Protocol (sitemap.xml)

    The positive complement to robots.txt: an XML file declaring what URLs exist on a site and what the operator wants crawled first.

  9. 2008

    Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System · on Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

    Nakamoto's nine-page design for electronic cash without a trusted third party — the strongest practical proof that a global system can run with no central owner.

  10. 2010s

    Ethereum's Intro to Web3 · on Ethereum's Intro to Web3

    The Ethereum Foundation's framing of Web3: a decentralized web built on user-owned, programmable infrastructure.

  11. 2024

    llms.txt · on llms.txt

    A proposed standard for a curated, LLM-shaped manifest at a site's root — telling language models what to read at inference time.

  12. 2024–25

    AGENTS.md · on AGENTS.md

    An open Markdown format at a repository's root carrying the build, test, style, and security context a coding agent needs.

  13. 2025–26

    design.md · on design.md

    An early Markdown convention for declaring a project's design system to design-aware coding agents.

  14. 2025

    Disrupting the First Reported AI-Orchestrated Cyber Espionage Campaign · on Disrupting the First Reported AI-Orchestrated Cyber Espionage Campaign

    Anthropic's disclosure of a state-sponsored espionage campaign in which an AI agent executed an estimated 80–90% of the operation with only sporadic human direction.

  15. 2026

    Interpretable Context Methodology: Folder Structure as Agent Architecture · on Interpretable Context Methodology: Folder Structure as Agent Architecture

    Van Clief and McDermott's paper arguing that a well-organized folder hierarchy can replace a multi-agent framework: the folder structure is the orchestration.

  16. LLM Wiki: A Pattern for Building Personal Knowledge Bases Using LLMs · on LLM Wiki: A Pattern for Building Personal Knowledge Bases Using LLMs

    Karpathy's pattern for an LLM-maintained wiki: instead of re-deriving answers from raw documents on every query (RAG), the model integrates each source into a persistent, compounding knowledge base.

  17. Compounding Knowledge vs. Retrieval

    Why an LLM-maintained wiki accumulates understanding where retrieval-augmented generation re-derives it on every query.

  18. Decentralization Across the Lineage

    How one move — removing the central intermediary — recurs from Licklider's network through the Web and Bitcoin to the Independent Internet.

  19. The Governance of Agent-Readable Standards

    The five agent-readable web standards differ sharply in who governs them — and that trajectory is the real story.