This memo describes an adaptive architecture for federating peer object servers. Both the architecture and its implementations are called Folk Memory. This term alludes to the social process by which folk tales or folk songs are remembered and propagated within a culture. pdf
See Folk Concepts from the orignal paper reconsidered in the light of 2-1/2 years developing and using the new wiki.
The paper was acknowledges as an early, but not the first, distributed content system in User:HaeB's <b>Timeline of distributed Wikipedia proposals</b>. post