The word "hyperspace" seems to appear only in the article's title, but your comment made me wonder.. It would make sense that "hypertext" arose from "hyperspace

The word "hyperspace" seems to appear only in the article's title, but your comment made me wonder.. It would make sense that "hypertext" arose from "hyperspace". I traced back the etymology and it looks like the 19th-century mathematician Bernhard Riemann was the first to coin the word, at least the concept of nth-dimensional geometry. The idea of higher dimensions was quite popular among artists in the early 20th century [0], and I theorize that somehow the stream reached Ted Nelson when he came up with "hypertext". From his "Brief Words on the Hypertext" (1967): "'Hyper-' is used in the mathematical sense of extension and generality (as in 'hyperspace,' 'hypercube')." He also mentions how "hypermedia" represents "complexes of branching and responding graphics, movies and sound – as well as text". The use of the word "branching" is reminiscent of neural networks, and it makes me wonder about the correspondences between the structure of the brain (or "mind") and space itself. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_dimension_in_art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_dimension_in_art