Dream Machines and Walled Gardens
summary
Timeline shows coinage of the word hypertext in 1965 and a working prototype called the Jot editor that stores every edit as an append-only stream; an ambitious Sanadoo system prototypes bidirectional linking, transclusion, permanent versioning and a Zigzag multidimensional navigation model. Netscape and the web adopt one-way links instead, leaving Sanadoo unfinished though the browser back button and ideas like micropayments for transcopyright survive as partial legacies.
AI-written summary · about
chapters (16)
- 0:00The background of Ted Nelson
- 2:15Intellectual inspirations
- 5:10Bush and the Memex
- 9:07Defining a digital protocol
- 13:46Computing vision and demos
- 17:25The Jot editor
- 20:22Coining the term hypertext
- 22:34Challenging the priesthood
- 25:18Xanadu and dream machines
- 27:07Hypertext in practice
- 30:40Transclusion and versioning
- 35:09Critique of the desktop model
- 39:01The Zigzag universe
- 42:36The web versus Xanadu
- 45:06Alternative history of the web
- 49:47The enduring dream
related talks
55mDream Machines and Walled Gardens
18mHow giant human-powered calculators became the internet
41mAutomatic Links for a Web of Text
33mHypermedia – the solution for future web applications?
12mKeynote With Jen Simmons
01h 01mKeynote: Why web tech is like this
22mThe (Abundant) State of the Web
38mA short history of the web