Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext

Belinda Barnet

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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The Evolution of Hypertext

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Foreword: To Mandelbrot in Heaven
pp ix-xviii

Preface
pp xix-xxvi

Chapter 1 - Technical Evolution
pp 1-10

Chapter 2 - Memex as an Image of Potentiality
pp 11-36

Chapter 3 - Augmenting the Intellect: NLS
pp 37-64

Chapter 4 - The Magical Place of Literary Memory: Xanadu
pp 65-90

Chapter 5 - Seeing and Making Connections: HES and FRESS
pp 91-114

Chapter 6 - Machine-Enhanced (Re)minding: The Development of Storyspace
pp 115-136

Conclusion
pp 137-142

Notes
pp 143-148

Bibliography
pp 149-156

Index
pp 157-166

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