[HN Gopher] Hypertext Tools from the 80s
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       Hypertext Tools from the 80s
        
       Author : janandonly
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2021-10-18 08:57 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (fibery.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (fibery.io)
        
       | tudorw wrote:
       | Please, whoever wrote this go and do some more research and
       | rewrite the Ted vs WWW, he was right, it was complicated, it
       | still is, does not mean he was not right, also it's there, you
       | can go and download the release and work on it, if you want,
       | here's an introduction to get it running, YMMV
       | https://gist.github.com/ldodds/a7f901c7f0118e83a645
        
       | arminiusreturns wrote:
       | Thank goodness for this article. I had seen a few of these tools
       | and have been thinking about this topic for a while, but I could
       | not for the life of me remember the names of some of the
       | inventors or products, in particular Xanadu. Now I have it back
       | thanks to this!
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       | There is a lot of meaty stuff to be had in this topic that I
       | think we would all do well to understand as we make things.
        
       | echelon wrote:
       | > try to understand why we had an enormous degradation in the
       | 1990s and 2000s, and why we are enjoying hypertext systems
       | renaissance now.
       | 
       | I fully disagree with the author's assertions about the current
       | state of hypertext. The 90's and 00's were peak hypertext:
       | authoring, microformats, RSS/Atom, semantic web, etc.
       | 
       | What we have now are a proliferation of walled gardens with thin
       | client interfaces exposed as JS/SPA applications.
        
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