Just published on Medium- Leopardi was a great Italian poet: a few people know that he invented the first hypertext
https://medium.com/philosophytoday/the-first-hypertext-was-italian-9162a41d902a
#hypertext #poetry #leopardi #Italy #thinking #intelligence #AI
I'm building an online #NortonGuide collection, in the hope of preserving all those handy help files we used to work with back in the #MSDOS days. Can you help?
blog.davep.org/2025/12/12/n...
#help #hypertext #clipper #caclipper #xbase
A Norton Guide collection
I'm building an online #NortonGuide collection, in the hope of preserving all those handy help files we used to work with back in the #MSDOS days. Can you help?
https://blog.davep.org/2025/12/12/norton-guide-collection.html
Werkzeug >> Tool
Light pen, colorized photo
IBM 2250 vector CRT display
Hypertext Editing System (1969)
Brown University
Providence RI USA
OK, so @milliesquilly gave a shoutout to Beny Danette which helped me discover this #HyperText competition winner made in a 12 hour creative sprint!
https://benydanette.itch.io/computer
Meanwhile, in a testament to the versatility of #Decker, @ribose created this science themed deck:
https://ribozone.itch.io/cell-culture
(do check out their equally gorgeous website https://ribo.zone/)
Inspired by the prodigious self-titled #decker zine queen @milliesquilly:
https://zine.milliesquilly.com/
@noracodes made a #zine in Decker:
https://nora.codes/post/infrastructure-photography-manifesto-and-decker-in-html/
which got shared by @alcinnz and that’s where I discovered Decker, a platform that builds on the old-school interactive feel of #Hypercard and rocks that Classic MacOS look:
https://beyondloom.com/decker/
There's even a #Twine integration! Time for some non-linear, interactive #storytelling, #HyperText style.
What is Gemini?
I made a zine in Decker, about why taking pictures of "ugly" things like power lines and train tracks feels meaningful to me. Also, I figured how to embed a Decker deck in a web page without an iframe!
https://nora.codes/post/infrastructure-photography-manifesto-and-decker-in-html/
For me the Bible is the original hyper text. Thomas Pynchon works is linear but becomes a hypertext in how the reader relates to it. Hopscotch is structured like a tree with optional fruit and choose your path game books have problem of character by the interaction of choice but have a nice complex shape in time showing complex structure.
My current idea involves a collection Pynchon like short stories but in Bible like library for a complex shape in time.
"A List Of Text-Only & Minimalist News Sites" is like a peek into an alternate timeline, where the web evolved in a different direction. Where it became functional and friction-free instead of bloated and annoying.
The pre-TRAC book, Wanted: A Reactive Typewriter
https://archive.org/details/DTIC_AD0400349
Which is SUPER hyper-texty, Vannevar Bush's Memex kinda thing.
And you realize Mooers is a total fruitbat when you read this. Good grief the man would do numbers on fedi or tumblr.
#retrocomputing #hypertext #trac
"PREPARE TO ENTER #HYPERTEXT."
(From an #ad on p30 of #MacWorld issue July 1987, via @johnblood's "Computer Ads from the Past" blog)
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/vote-for-the-october-2025-post-topic
We retrieved from an old archive "NoteCards User’s Guide" V2.0 and added it to the source tree. Published in 1991, this manual better matches the NoteCards code that comes with Medley Interlisp but some of the information the document provides is now only of historical value.
https://files.interlisp.org/medley/notecards/docs/user-guide-v2.0
This is neat, hyperlinks in terminals:
https://github.com/Alhadis/OSC8-Adoption
It works in iTerm2, but you have to hold Cmd down while mousing over to see the link, otherwise it's just underlined.
In NoteCards a "tabletop card" is an arrangement of cards (hypertext nodes) on the screen, such as the 3 cards at the center.
A "guided tour" is a graph whose nodes are tabletop cards (table icons) and whose edges are links connecting the cards. You traverse a guided tour with the control panel at right and the result is a "slide show" of tabletops.
For more on tabletop cards and guided tours see:
I just watched @pythonbynight's talk "Back to the Future of Hypermedia in Python" and enjoyed it very much! If you wonder what HTMX is, and especially if you're into Python, this is the talk for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MopeCQVSIUk
#hypermedia #hypertext #python #HTML #HTMX #programming #development #web
“I was 34 years old when I first had the idea for the world wide web. I took every opportunity to talk about it: pitching it in meetings, sketching it out on a whiteboard for anyone who was interested, even drawing the web in the snow with a ski pole for my friend on what was meant to be a peaceful day out.
I relentlessly petitioned #bosses at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (#Cern), where I worked at the time, who initially found the idea “a little eccentric” but eventually gave in and let me work on it. I was seized by the idea of combining two pre-existing #computer #technologies: the #internet and #hypertext, which takes an ordinary document and brings it to life by adding “links”.” — Tim Berners-Lee
An idea so big, constant lobbying was required. The constant noise of “Entrepreneurs” changing the world with their ideas, business and money.
TBL gave away the #WWW, for free.
#TimBernersLee / #Hypertext / #HTTP / #RFC1945 / #RFC1866 / #GET <https://theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free>
A NoteCards "browser" is a type of card that shows a hypertext network as a graph structure, i.e. a graph view like in this example. The thumbnail at the top left corner lets you pan and scroll the graph.
> A peculiarity in Storyspace is that links can point to several targets at the same time.
Wow, that’s a wild #hypertext/#InteractiveFiction idea!
From https://mprove.de/visionreality/text/2.1.11_storyspace.html
Although NoteCards predated the WWW, in the early days of the web the hypermedia system developed with Interlisp-D was also used for research on the design, analysis, and documentation of web sites such as the projects described in these papers.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/268820.268861
