Hypertext TV

A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed | TechCrunch

HyperTexting's new app aims to make the open web feel more like social media by turning websites, blogs, newsletters, and podcasts into a scrollable feed, while also making it easier to post to your own website.

A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed | TechCrunch

HyperTexting's new app aims to make the open web feel more like social media by turning websites, blogs, newsletters, and podcasts into a scrollable feed, while also making it easier to post to your own website.

No Longer No Sense of an Ending

This is my first feature piece on Contents Magazine, about harnessing the properties of hypertext and the Web for superior reader experiences and business results.

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.

TV on the internet before YouTube

Just a little note to get this all in one place. This was prompted by my comment here: On-demand was a thing before, but it was mediated through slow, glitchy cable and satellite boxes. There was also a thriving scene of RSS-delivered web TV shows. * The technology (RSS)

Datastar

The hypermedia framework.

Web Platform: What are we working on?

Web Platform What are we working on? Simone Onofri WebEngineHackFest 2025

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 Subversive Hyperlink

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

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

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