
The Intermedia System in Hypertext: An introduction and survey by J. Conklin https://t.co/7ZxoozBDgw
The Intermedia System in Hypertext: An introduction and survey by J. Conklin https://t.co/7ZxoozBDgw
Scholars quickly set about organizing the new mental environment by clipping their favorite passages from books and assembling them into huge tomes—florilegia, bouquets of text—so that readers could sample the best parts.
The owner of the memex, let us say, is interested in the origin and properties of the bow and arrow. Specifically he is studying why the short Turkish bow was apparently superior to the English long bow in the skirmishes of the Crusades. He has dozens of possibly pertinent books and articles in his memex. First he runs through an encyclopedia,... See more