HyperText

• TedNelson invented the term, and the Xanadu project.

It's been around for a long time. Read JillWalkerRettberg : http://jilltxt.net/?p=1292

Some 80s systems: https://fibery.io/blog/hypertext-tools-from-the-80s/

• RichHyperText
• HyperTextFuture
• TheOpenSocietyAndItsMedia

• Drexler on Hypertext : http://www.foresight.org/WebEnhance/HPEK1.html#anchor326330
  • review : http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/~paquetse/cgi-bin/om.cgi?HypertextPublishingAndTheEvolutionOfKnowledge

• PurpleNumbers

• In wiki : PageNamesAreConcrete

• HypertextVsHierarchy
• ADocumentIsNotATree
• What's the difference in meaning of sentences containing links vs. the same words without links : HyperSemantics

On Links

• TypedLinks
• OneWayLinks
• LinkingVsCiting
• HyperTextPatterns
• JornBarger on where hypertext should go : http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=16e613ec.0302190105.7f8db4b5%40posting.google.com&rnum=1&filter=0

• HyperTextIsDead

Dangers

• HyperTextCanalization
• Beware HypertextSickness

Other hypertext systems

• ToolsForThought
• MindOrganizer
• What is NODAL?

Compare :

• HyperCard
• HyperMedia (hyper-linking more than text)