Sunday, October 19, 2008

11. A File Structure for The Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate, Theodor H. Nelson, 1965

  • Nelson created the word and concept of "hypertext"
  • Hypertext combines "multimedia computing, electronic literature, and the World Wide Web."
  • Hypertext:  "a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper." 
  • This is not the only way Nelson was thinking about hypertext
  • Hypertext can also be seen as a "complex, reconfigurable, linked [structure] of information..."

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