Microcosm (cf. 2.1.13) is a research project at the University of Southampton. Like Intermedia five years before, Microcosm is designed around the idea that material of diverse sources and formats should be tied together into one hypertext. To achieve this goal links have to be separated from the documents. They are stored and maintained in special link databases. In contrast to Intermedia, Microcosm plays the active role in gathering the necessary data out of the documents. For each topic it stores data on which documents contain information about it and also where inside the documents the information is located. This elaborated conception of links can be seen more as a kind of Memex’ trails than simple one-to-one links. Given this structure dynamic linking becomes possible. This means that links can be associated with generic text strings. Wherever this string shows up a link is placed automatically. This has the effect that documents that are imported for the first time into Microcosm can have links immediately.
MICROCOSM: An Open Hypermedia Environment for Information Integration.
This report examines open hypermedia systems, and argues that such systems provide users with richer and more diverse ways to access and integrate information from large and dynamic data sets in a distributed, heterogeneous environment. In particular, the enhanced Microcosm model for open hypermedia is examined, and the ways in which it provides such an environment are discussed. The paper continues by investigating the advantages and the short comings of this model and identifies areas in which further work must be completed before such systems can become widely adopted, in particular the granularity of link anchors, editing, and version control. Possible solutions to these problems are presented and discussed.
LN 040: The venerable hyperlink
Decades after hyperlinks transformed humanity's information and text into a densely-linked graph, mainstream OSs have yet to afford users their benefits in personal computing.
Hyperlink Academy
It's a lightweight collaborative publishing tool for quick tiny docs that can grow into rich creative surfaces ✨🌱
Declare and resolve website links for at:// URIs. A demo of the me.byjp.atproto.deeplink lexicons.
Jared Goering on Twitter / X
Saw this and immediately built it. Open-sourced the whole thing:Ingest URLs, PDFs, tweets, images → LLM compiles a linked markdown wiki → Q&A with citations, knowledge graph, contradiction linting, auto-research, export to HTML/PDF/slides.Been using it nonstop as a personal… https://t.co/ypaXlEA7pn pic.twitter.com/8Z2DLAyQjH— Jared Goering (@jaredgoering) April 4, 2026
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.
LinkML – Bring structure to your data.
An open framework that simplifies authoring, validating, and sharing data — providing an accessible platform for interdisciplinary collaboration and a reliable way to define and share data semantics.
What the ephemerality of the Web means for your hyperlinks
Hyperlinks are a powerful tool for journalists and their readers. Diving deep into the context of an article is just a click away. But hyperlinks are a double-edged sword; for all of the internet’s boundlessness, what’s found on the Web can also be modified, moved, or entirely vanished. The fragility of the Web poses an […]
Seed Hypermedia
Publish documents, connect ideas, discuss them in context, and preserve verifiable authorship and collective memory over time.
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.
The HotJava Browser: A White Paper
Browsers allow people to treat the data spread across the Internet as a cohesive whole. Web browsers integrate the function of fetching the data with figuring out what it is and displaying it. One of the most important file types browsers understand is the hypertext markup language (HTML). HTML allows text data objects to embed simple formatting information and references to other objects.
The Subversive Hyperlink
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
WDC - RDFa, Microdata, and Microformat Data Sets
More and more websites have started to embed structured data describing products, people, organizations, places, and events into their HTML pages using markup standards such as Microdata, JSON-LD, RDFa, and Microformats. The Web Data Commons project extracts this data from several billion web pages. So far the project provides 12 different data set releases extracted from the Common Crawls 2010 to 2023. The project provides the extracted data for download and publishes statistics about the deployment of the different formats.
The Ideal University
Critical maneuvers can open space for thinking and questioning differently. One thing hypertext can offer this task is an endlessly wide margin on which to inscribe comments and make links, the chance to move in new directions. That is what the university is supposed to offer, too.
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.
Build an LLM Wiki for Your AI Agents
Build an LLM Wiki for Your AI Agents with myKG and Obsidian How to turn a folder of mixed format documents into a typed, interlinked knowledge graph your agents can actually read — using myKG and …
