50 years ago today the word “hypertext” was introduced

[stevesuny]

Well, 50 years + 3 days. https://gigaom.com/2015/08/24/hypertext-50/.   My thinking is that Tiddlywiki comes as close to Nelson's vision of hypertext as any other application I've used. If Nelson's Xanadu is the unattainable ideal against which others are measured, how close is TW? Where does it fall short? In what ways is TW even more hypertextual? 

[Joshua Fontany]

 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu#Original_17_rules

I note some striking similarities.

[Alex Hough]

Steve,

"My thinking is that Tiddlywiki comes as close to Nelson's vision of hypertext as any other application I've used" - sounds like the start of a paper (didn't you post something about a hypertext conference a short while ago)

I wrote a paper for a conference in which I sketched out a design for a tool for place management (using TiddlyWiki of course). I struggled with justifying the choice of TiddlyWiki, I ended up going up a level of abstraction, saying that hypertext is the most obvious way of dealing with communicating complexity. I don't think I quite managed to make an argument that TW is more suitable for hypertext writing than other hypertext authoring tools.

In the forthcoming year, I hope to build and trail the tool in a live project, I was wondering if i could turn it into a case study for a hypertext conference as well as a place management conference.

Something about making the case that hypertext literacy skills are a key to understanding and communicating complex ideas, and that personal hypertext authorship is the first step. 

I wonder if we could have some kind of discussion about this, maybe on the next hangout?

best wishes

Alex

On 28 August 2015 at 05:41, Joshua Fontany <joshua....@gmail.com> wrote:

 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu#Original_17_rules

I note some striking similarities.

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