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Hypertext

Human–Computer Interaction

Text with links — Nelson's word, the web's foundation.

Hypertext — Text with links — Nelson's word, the web's foundation.

This entry is a stub. It will be written out in full when a Chromix article calls for it. What belongs here: what Hypertext actually did, why it mattered at the time, and what it made possible afterwards — each claim carrying its own source.

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The Mother of All Demos, 1968. What was shown but never built.
Origins
In 1960, Engelbart ran the numbers. Moore's Law is the half we kept.
Origins

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