Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext
by Belinda Barnet · 14 Jul 2013 · 193pp · 19,478 words
Brown – ours […] Unimaginable today’ (van Dam 2011). The Hypertext Editing System was SEEING AND MAKING CONNECTIONS 97 designed for personal text editing, information retrieval and nonsequential writing. This is one of the differences between ours and Engelbart’s system. That system imposes a hierarchical tree structure upon all textual contents, in contrast
Possiplex
by Ted Nelson · 2 Jan 2010
old forms or writing any more. But of course the old writings themselves could be brought forward as re-usable content for this new genre. Nonsequential writing—the term “hypertext” had not yet been coined—was obviously the manifest destiny of literature. I foresaw a sweeping new genre of writing with many
The Internet Is Not the Answer
by Andrew Keen · 5 Jan 2015 · 361pp · 81,068 words
tying two items together on the network. The World Wide Web In 1960, a “discombobulated genius” named Ted Nelson came up with the idea of “nonsequential writing,” which he coined “hypertext.”40 Riffing off Vannevar Bush’s notion of “information trails,” Nelson replaced Bush’s reliance on analog devices like levers and