Hypertext and Critical Discussion
Sami Määttä August 2008 First version Apr 2001, updated Aug 2008 (The original: http://www.kaapeli.fi/~smaatta/hypertextandcriticaldiscussion.html) Not all links are valid any more. So I usually try to find Web pages on Wayback Machine . There is a huge need for an easy to use tools in exploring the landscapes of the Web, in creating and reading hypertext and in annotating on other authors' documents. Something useful could be developed given the Web techniques and W3C recommendations (standards) and some tools as they are at the moment. But it is most fruitful to keep in one's mind that hypertext, the digital space is changing at it's very roots. The work is more or less inspired by and based on revolutionary ideas by Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson and his friends. For the latest Xanadu development see the Transliterature site and the "whole" story around Xanadu project . At the moment it is far too easy to get lost in the Web and even lo...