Memory machines: the evolution of hypertext
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 tells both the human and the technological story by weaving together contemporary literature and her exclusive interviews with those at the forefront of hypertext innovation, tracing its evolutionary roots back to the analogue machine imagined by Vannevar Bush in 1945.
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- Full title :Memory machines : the evolution of hypertext / Belinda Barnet ; with a foreword by Stuart Moulthrop.
Summary
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 tells both the human and the technological story by weaving together contemporary literature and her exclusive interviews with those at the forefront of hypertext innovation, tracing its evolutionary roots back to the analogue machine imagined by Vannevar Bush in 1945.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Anthem Press
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (1 recurso electrónico (xxvi, 166 páginas))
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780857280794, 0857280791
- oclc:on1286747970
- Dewey Decimal:006.7
Table of Contents
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.
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