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.
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
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
This Is for Everyone ebook by Tim Berners-Lee - Rakuten Kobo
Read "This Is for Everyone The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web" by Tim Berners-Lee available from Rakuten Kobo. A Sunday Times Bestseller The inventor of the World Wide Web explores his vision’s promise—and how it can be redeemed fo...
Manifesto: An Online Creative's Social Web Dethroning - HK★TMK
"Oh great, now he's writing manifestos…" Don't worry. It's just a personal one to solidify and manifest how I want to use the Social Web once my detox concludes.
Stephen Haney on Twitter / X
I'm very excited about WebMCPHere's Paper in an iframe, being controlled by an external agent that wraps it, all in the browserWebMCP opens up cool embedded flows pic.twitter.com/YtbsQYbUQT— Stephen Haney (@stephenhaney) September 2, 2026
Hypermedia Systems
The revolutionary ideas that empowered the Web. A simpler approach to building applications on the Web and beyond with htmx and Hyperview. Enhancing web applications without using SPA frameworks.
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The Curse of Xanadu
It was the most radical computer dream of the hacker era. Ted Nelson's Xanadu project was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form.
Becoming the Product - Set Margins'
€24.00 In stock Becoming the Product quantity Add to cart Category: Books Tags: #designwriting, #institutionalcritique, #internetcritique Description Additional information Description In Becoming the Product: The Critical Internet Researcher as a Virtual Intellectual, the evolution of critical internet research takes center stage. By examining the pioneering work of early net critic Geert Lovink and the influencer-style […]
The Evolution of Creativity
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
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…