What happened to hypertext fiction? If you were alive and literate in the 1990s, you may remember the hype with which hypertext was touted as the next big thing: a medium that had the potential to ...
I’ve been on the road a lot this summer teaching newsrooms about online writing. It’s challenging, exciting and fun; I get paid to learn, just the way I did as a reporter. But I’ve encountered a ...
Byron Reese: Well, we are coming upon the 50th anniversary of your presentation of your paper “A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing and the Indeterminate” at the Association for Computing ...
A graphic from Tim Berners-Lee's 1989 proposal for what became the web, complete with blocky graphics and typo ("reefers" for "refers") On March 12, 1989, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee ...
A document publishing and browsing system widely used on the Internet is called "World Wide Web(Web) ", this is called" embedding position information of another document at an arbitrary place in the ...
FOR a thoroughly modern word, hypertext has surprisingly ancient antecedents. Contrary to what you might think, it’s not exclusively a device of the World Wide Web, but has been around in one form or ...
An Argentinean writer who envisioned “a massive branching structure as a better way to organize data and to represent human experience,” was born 112 years ago today and is the subject of a special ...
The coding language used to create Hypertext documents which are used on the world wide web. This language is the syntax that tells your browser how to view the data that is by a website. HTML ...