“The human mind ... operates by association. With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is suggested by the association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain.”
—Vannevar Bush, 1945
“If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards”.
—Ted Nelson, 1974
“HyperText is a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will.”
—Tim Berners-Lee, 1992
“Hypermedia is defined by the presence of application control information embedded within, or as a layer above, the presentation of information.”
—Roy T. Fielding, 2001
“The WWW is fundamentally a distributed hypermedia application.”
—Richard Taylor, 2010
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