Memory machines

Memory machines: the evolution of hypertext

by Barnet, Belinda

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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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Title Statements

  • 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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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2013

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Anthem Press
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2013

Notes

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 166 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780857280794, 0857280791, 9780857280602, 0857280600
  • oclc:ocn992826619
  • LC Classification:QA76.76.H94
  • 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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Writers

Barnet, Belinda Moulthrop, Stuart

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