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...
This book explores the history of hypertext, an influential concept that forms the underlying structure of the World Wide Web and innumerable softw...
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...
This book explores the history of hypertext, an influential concept that forms the underlying structure of the World Wide Web and innumerable softw...