Hypermedia is a universal technology today, almost as common as electricity.
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.
Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era
The grand idealism of the free and open internet might be over for now, but in its place falls a more practical mindset. Just like Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs are entering their “Hard Tech” era, the people building web alternatives are also entering their Post-Naive Era. Here are the names to know.
Hypermedia
Welcome to the Hypermedia Protocol: a decentralized publishing and discussion network
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
A witty, often terrifying that chronicles our transform…
HyperCard Changed Everything
The web was always about redistribution of power. Let's bring that back.
It's time to rekindle the movement.
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.
Art or tool?
The Internet spaces I tend to inhabit have more polarisation than at many other recent times, and little explication of the worldviews that lead to different premises for discussion, that in turn...
Introducing Ringspace: A Proposal for the Human Web
For months, I've been working on a project to demonstrate how we can preserve humanity on the web. It's finally ready for testing.
My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing. But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and they have lessons for the future.
The Subversive Hyperlink
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Sustainable Web Manifesto
“If the Internet was a country, it would be the 13th largest polluter”
Break up the Browsers. A Proposal to Save the Open Web. - Movement For An Open Web
The Open Web is one of the world’s modern wonders. Based on core, universally recognised technical standards and owned and controlled by no one body, it is a unique structureRead More
jzhao.xyz
Welcome! I’m Jacky. This is my little hypertext garden on the Internet — make yourself at home! Currently, I’m exploring what agentic and communal technology looks like at Replit.
