Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Chapter 11

1965
Theodor H. Nelson
  • coined the term "hypertext" as 'a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper.'
  • proposed that there were several specific types of hypertext; in this essay he describes on as a complex, reconfigurable, linked structures of information, which can be manipulated at a granularity much smaller (or larger) than the page.
  • his vision was a precursor to making "personal information managers useful platforms for thinking and working in a networked world"

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