Memory machines: the evolution of hypertext
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Main Author: Barnet, Belinda (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Anthem Press 2013
Series:Anthem scholarship in the digital age
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Foreword: To Mandelbrot in Heaven / Stuart Moulthrop -- Technical Evolution -- Memex as an Image of Potentiality -- Augmenting the Intellect : NLS -- The Magical Place of Literary Memory : Xanadu -- Seeing and Making Connections : HES and FRESS -- Machine-Enhanced (Re)minding : Development of Storyspace
"This book explores the history of hypertext, an influential concept that forms the underlying structure of the World Wide Web and innumerable software applications. Barnet combines an analysis of contemporary literature with her exclusive interviews with those at the forefront of the hypertext innovation. She tells both the human and the technological story, tracing its path back to an analogue device imagined by Vannevar Bush in 1945, before modern computing had happened. Memory Machines offers an expansive record of hypertext over the last 60 years, pinpointing the major breakthroughs and fundamental flaws in its evolution. Barnet argues that some of the earliest hypertext systems were more richly connected and in some respects more flexible than the Web; this is also a fascinating account of the paths not taken. Barnet ends the journey through computing history at the birth of mass domesticated hypertext, at the point that it grew out of the university labs and into the Web. And yet she suggests that hypertext may not have completed its evolutionary story, and may still have the capacity to become something different, something much better than it is today"--Provided by publisher
Physical Description:166 pages
ISBN:9780857280794
0857280791
9780857281968
0857281968
9780857280602
0857280600

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