[HN Gopher] Hypertext Tools from the 80s ___________________________________________________________________ Hypertext Tools from the 80s Author : janandonly Score : 34 points Date : 2021-10-18 08:57 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (fibery.io) (TXT) w3m dump (fibery.io) | tudorw wrote: | Please, whoever wrote this go and do some more research and | rewrite the Ted vs WWW, he was right, it was complicated, it | still is, does not mean he was not right, also it's there, you | can go and download the release and work on it, if you want, | here's an introduction to get it running, YMMV | https://gist.github.com/ldodds/a7f901c7f0118e83a645 | arminiusreturns wrote: | Thank goodness for this article. I had seen a few of these tools | and have been thinking about this topic for a while, but I could | not for the life of me remember the names of some of the | inventors or products, in particular Xanadu. Now I have it back | thanks to this! | | There is a lot of meaty stuff to be had in this topic that I | think we would all do well to understand as we make things. | echelon wrote: | > try to understand why we had an enormous degradation in the | 1990s and 2000s, and why we are enjoying hypertext systems | renaissance now. | | I fully disagree with the author's assertions about the current | state of hypertext. The 90's and 00's were peak hypertext: | authoring, microformats, RSS/Atom, semantic web, etc. | | What we have now are a proliferation of walled gardens with thin | client interfaces exposed as JS/SPA applications. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-10-20 23:00 UTC)