Episode 55 - Project Xanadu
Advent of Computing
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The Evolution of Hyper Text
The corps of h s was a text editing and navigation system that shouldn't be all that surprising. Any user would spend most of their time either reading or writing text. The entire project is described in a 19 69 paper titled a hyper text editing system for the three 60 now you can tell its a more serious paper because we're back to names that cann't make sense anyway. In this short passage, even without hitting any technical details, we start to see an interesting trend. Hyperotext transcends normal media, but is still deeply connected to it.
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