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Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think"
Bush has been credited with inventing the idea of hypertext (the name was coined by Ted Nelson in 1965) in this seminal essay for the Information Age, published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1945.
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Xanadu home page,
Xanadu Australia home page,
Xanadu
Audio and Video clips Computer visionary Ted Nelson took
Vannevar Bush's idea for a memex and applied it
to digital technology, inventing our modern understanding of
hypertext
and hypermedia in 1965. He called his idea for a global
hypertext system "Xanadu"; many say it has been largely realized by
the World Wide Web.
Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu"
History and critical view of the ups and downs of Ted Nelson's
Xanadu project, from Wired magazine.
Robert Kendall, "Writing for the New Millennium: The Birth of Electronic Literature"
"From the electronic pen come poems and stories that couldn't be
represented in print -- work that can exist only on the infinitely
flexible 'cyberpage' offered by the personal computer monitor,"
writes poet Kendall in Poets and Writers magazine, November/December
1995.
Nancy Kaplan, "E-literacies: Politexts, Hypertexts, and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print"
"This article is a hypertextualized and extended version of the
keynote address delivered at the Second Domains of Literacy
Conference at The University of London, 1-3 September 1994,"
published online in Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine in 1995.
More about the authors
The Jorge Luis Borges Center for Studies and Documentation
Aaurhus University site.
Jorge Luis Borges
Spanish-language site with links.
Dave Barry Frequently Asked Questions
For the newsgroup alt.fan.dave_barry.
Jason Challas, "Interview with Brenda Laurel"
July 1995.
Jason Morgan, "Interview with Brenda Laurel"
From Mondo 2000.
More about hypertext and electronic publishing
HyperLiterature/HyperTheory HomePage
Course taught in fall, 1995, by Professor Len Hatfield at Virginia Tech, with excellent links related to hypertext theory.
The ETEXT Archives
"The Etext Archives (est. 1992) are home to electronic texts of all kinds, from the sacred to the profane, from the political to the personal. Our duty is to provide electronic versions of texts without judging their content."
Links to Electronic Book and Text Sites
From OmniMedia Digital Publishing.
Project Gutenberg Home Page
The largest and longest-running effort to publish a global online library.
On the Net: WWW and Internet Resources in Virtual Reality
From Toni Emerson of the Human Interface Technology Lab at the University of Washington.
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