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• n  machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected
  Let me introduce the word hypertext to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper"--Ted Nelson

• One of history's ironies is that hypertext an embedded Web link that refers you to another page or site had been invented by Ted Nelson in the early 1960s with the goal of .
• Curiously, rather than being a boon to the nascent hypertext-fiction movement, the Web is seen as a spoiler: "The regrettable rump faction says we lost the hypertext movement when .
• The trouble with most hypertext systems, as of the late 1980s, was that they were in one sense unlike the brain.

News & Articles

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• Computing UI visionary Douglas Engelbart passes away at age 88
  The computing world lost one of its great minds and true pioneers yesterday. Douglas Engelbart passed away at age 88, just over a half-century after he joined the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) -- the place where much of his ground-breaking computing research would take place. Among his (and his research team's) many inventions made at SRI are the mouse, bitmapped screens, hypertext ...
  July 3, 2013 - Engadget

Quotes

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• Tim Bray in ZDNet UK
  We weren't insightful enough to recognise that what we had inside of Hypercard, essentially, was everything that later was developed so successfully by Tim Berners-Lee with HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and HTML (Hypertext Markup... John Sculley http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sculley&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFKy1kbWbXsJq_kwxSaowREMMmHRg ZDNet UK http://www.google.com/url?q=http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39118830,00.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFSIo_6yXlGcXq39cOtfwaqlvvrxA Dec 31, 2003 49038 66591 hypertext For many years before the Web there were many different ways of publishing information. There were many different ways of doing hypertext. There were many different ways of doing online information retrieval and search, and navigation," said Bray.