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Interesting: The connection between Pale Fire and hypertext was stated soon after its publication; in 1969, the information-technology researcher Ted Nelson ob
by adolph 2y ago
Interesting:
The connection between Pale Fire and hypertext was stated soon after its publication; in 1969, the information-technology researcher Ted Nelson obtained permission from the novel's publishers to use it for a hypertext demonstration at Brown University.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Fire
- cxr 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23491587 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23491587
- recursive 2y agoFunny to think that we're this far into the "information era", and your choices for consuming this book are either physical paper, or general (non-hypermedia) ebook.
- adolph 2y agoOnce upon a time people thought hypermedia solved some problem of publishing but didn't realize IP was the real hurdle (until OpenAI etc "solved" that by embedding the novels in NLP token weights).