Group: hypertext

Summary

Hypertext is the idea that text is broken into relatively short pieces with links between related pieces. Nodes and links replace chapters and books. The writing is non-sequential, more like associative thinking than a prepared speech.

Hypertext can track the source of each passage. Nelson's Xanadu system allowed every byte of text to appear anywhere in the hypertext. (cbb 4/07)

Subtopic: hypertext as non-sequential writing

Quote: hypertext is non-sequential writing, like the structure of ideas; writing is sequential because of speech and books [»nelsTH_1974]

Quote: digital text storage and display leads to a new medium, the hypertext; non-linear, complex, interconnected; more effective than linear text for everything [»nelsTH_1967]

Quote: hypertext is any text that cannot be printed on a page; non-linear branching, multiple levels of detail [»nelsTH_1967]

Subtopic: hypertext as a graph, web, or network

Quote: in HAM a Hypertext is a graph with subgraph contexts; consists of nodes, links, and attributes [»campB7_1988]

Quote: Hypertext is linking together discrete blocks to form webs of information that include paths and annotations [»yankN10_1985]

Quote: a Hypertext consists of a network of textual nodes, a window per node, link icons, browsing, and modifiability [»conkJ9_1987]

Quote: a Hypertext allows authors to link information, create paths, annotate text, create references [»yankN1_1988]

Quote: Hypertext is a directed graph of nodes and links

Quote: hypertext can be a vast tapestry of information, as easy to explore as driving a car [»nelsTH_1974]

Quote: ZOG allows browsing a network of small text frames which include a menu of descriptive links [»hayePJ_1982]

Quote: NoteCards designed for idea processing and organizing information; provides a network of notecards with typed links [»halaFG7_1988]

Quote: hypertext consists of text segments of any length with links signaled by asterisks; zapping an asterisk takes you there [»nelsTH_1974]

Quote: should be able to link or annotate anything [»nelsTH_1974]

Subtopic: hypertext as recording, and reusing, the origin of every byte

Quote: Xanadu documents record the origin of every byte and note all interesting interconnections [»nelsTH1_1988]

Quote: a Xanadu document consists of native bytes and inclusions from other documents; inclusions same status as native bytes [»nelsTH1_1988]

Quote: a system of storage should make it easy to reuse any part of a document

Quote: a system of storage should keep track of origins, variations, and different contexts of everything [»nelsTH1_1988]

Group: hypertext

Group: problems with hypertext   (7 topics, 98 quotes)
Group: user interface for hypertext   (5 topics, 110 quotes)

Topic: archiving Information in Hypertext (6 items)
Topic: attachment of hypertext links (16 items)
Topic: choice points for a user interface (4 items)
Topic: cross reference and hierarchical links in hypertext (9 items)
Topic: examples of hypertext systems (25 items)
Topic: examples of manual hypertext systems (6 items)
Topic: execution of hypertext nodes (21 items)
Topic: hierarchical structures in hypertext (19 items)
Topic: hypermedia (5 items)
Topic: hypertext as a distributed system (4 items)
Topic: hypertext as a global database (30 items)
Topic: hypertext links (45 items)
Topic: hypertext nodes (19 items)
Topic: hypertext nodes as facts (6 items)
Topic: hypertext nodes made of names (13 items)
Topic: hypertext as external memory (24 items)
Topic: implementation of hypertext databases (17 items)
Topic: implicit links (1 item)
Topic: intertextuality and hypertext (11 items)
Topic: linearization of hypertext (23 items)
Topic: managing changes in hypertext (21 items)
Topic: schemas for hypertext (7 items)
Topic: searching hypertext (17 items)
Topic: semantic networks (42 items)
Topic: size of hypertext nodes (8 items)
Topic: text trails through hypertext (17 items)
Topic: types of hypertext links (19 items)
Topic: using annotations in hypertext (13 items)
Topic: using hypertext for cooperative work (9 items)
Topic: using keywords to search hypertext (26 items)
Topic: World-Wide Web (42 items)
Topic: writing hypertext
(13 items)

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