Ted Nelson is a visionary who is credited with coining the term hypertext, but he is highly critical of what the internet has become.
HyperCard Changed Everything
Disaster, doubt, and the origins of hypertext
Hypertext and the World Wide Web are built on a complex network of ideas that originate in the military and ecological disasters of the short 20 th Century, 1914--1989, and in a world-spanning intellectual effort to prevent their recurrence. Though that effort now appears to have failed, and though the tragic story of the 20 th Century has not, it seems, concluded, we may learn profit by examining the concepts and ideals on which hypertext was built.
Disaster, doubt, and the origins of hypertext
Hypertext and the World Wide Web are built on a complex network of ideas that originate in the military and ecological disasters of the short 20 th Century, 1914--1989, and in a world-spanning intellectual effort to prevent their recurrence. Though that effort now appears to have failed, and though the tragic story of the 20 th Century has not, it seems, concluded, we may learn profit by examining the concepts and ideals on which hypertext was built.
The inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the internet, 'fake news,' and why net neutrality is so important
Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner sat down with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, for a far-ranging conversation.
How the Web Was Lost – James Gleick
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Webby Tim Berners-Lee with Stephen WittFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 389 pp., $30
Tim Berners Lee: Thoughts On The Internet Evolution
"I’ve always believed the web is for everyone. That's why I and others fight fiercely to protect it."
Tim Berners-Lee on the huge sociotechnical design challenge | TechCrunch
In a speech discussing ethics and the Internet, the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has tasked the technology industry and its coder
Keynote Address: Tim Berners-Lee – Re-decentralizing the web - some strategic questions
Tim Berners-Lee Keynote: "Re-decentralizing the web - some strategic questions" Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He founded and Directs the World Wide Consortium (W3C) the forum for technical development of the Web. Video Production & Live Streaming provided by Argus HD
The Fathers of the Internet Revolution Urge Today’s Software Engineers to Reinvent the Web
Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, and other Internet pioneers issue a challenge on a day that just might go down in tech history
Seed Hypermedia
Publish documents, connect ideas, discuss them in context, and preserve verifiable authorship and collective memory over time.
Ted Nelson on Pernicious Computer Traditions
Nadia Eghbal, Re: Writing Hypertext
My digichat with @nayafia---an essential writer (*imho*) of texts, notes and wonderful roundups.
"A Web of Our Own Making" with Antón Barba-Kay
social hypertext
http gave us hypertext. atproto gives us social hypertext.
A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed | TechCrunch
marking off AI slop / seo spam pages experimenting with collective action on the whole internet
HTTP gave us hypertext, atproto gives us "social hypertext"
Building on some of @chrisshank.com's work, what if we had browsers that were atproto-native? orange link = in your PDS green link = in the…