miniblog.

Ted Nelson introducing some of the basic principles of Xanadu, his hypertext design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMKy52Intac He stresses the importance of visible hyperlinks, an interesting choice when some UI designers argue that today's underlined links are distracting for readers.

Fascinating introduction to early hyperlinks: there were 'linkbases' (storing links separately from the content), they weren't 1:1 (one link could point to multiple destinations) and had gossip protocols to update on other servers! https://moocs.southampton.ac.uk/websci/2014/02/21/open-hypermedia-web/ https://edshare.soton.ac.uk/6158/1/Open_Hypermedia.pptx

Hyper-G is (was?) an interesting hypertext design, where hyperlinks were stored in a separate database to ensure integrity and allow visualisations with trivial backlink calculations: https://www.ickn.org/elements/hyper/cyb20.htm