<story><title>50 years ago today the word “hypertext” was introduced</title><url>https://gigaom.com/2015/08/24/hypertext-50/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andars</author><text>Perhaps someday the original vision of hypertext will become commonplace, rather than the watered-down version that we have.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; So, I still have a dream that the web could be less of a television channel, and more of a sea of interactive shared knowledge...&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;worrydream.com&amp;#x2F;quotes&amp;#x2F;?author=Tim%20Berners-Lee&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;worrydream.com&amp;#x2F;quotes&amp;#x2F;?author=Tim%20Berners-Lee&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>50 years ago today the word “hypertext” was introduced</title><url>https://gigaom.com/2015/08/24/hypertext-50/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>colanderman</author><text>What an interesting character.  You can see his vision for the web at &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.xanadu.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.xanadu.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;, it is quite unique.  Seems to focus almost entirely on concepts of ownership, attribution, quotation, and composition.&lt;p&gt;Given how much the modern web has developed, without significant infrastructure arising to support any of these, I wonder what that says about their utility in our current society, compared to those features which &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; arisen in the modern web (hyperlinking, anonymity, ephemerality, independence, content-addressability).</text></comment>