ACM Hypertext 2026 – An ACM SIGWEB Conference

📢 #HT2026 Paper Deadline Extended! 📢
More time to submit your research!
📝 New deadline: April 17

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‘The Magical Place of Literary Memory™: Xanadu’
Belinda Barnet
Screening the Past, 20 Dec 2014

Then all the charm
Is broken-all that phantom world so fair,
Vanishes and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other

(Coleridge, cited by Ted Nelson, ‘Dream Machines’, p. 142) […]

Supporting collaboration in notecards | Proceedings of the 1986 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work

This 1986 paper reported on various extensions and forms of collaboration for the NoteCards hypertext-based idea structuring system. Written in Interlisp, NoteCards was initially a single user system.

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#interlisp #hypertext #retrocomputing

🏆 HT Award Spotlight – Douglas Engelbart Best Paper 2010

James Goulding, Tim Brailsford & Helen Ashman: Hyperorders and Transclusion – explores the ZigZag hypertext and transclusion, and why it hasn’t been widely adopted.

Hypertext: www.sigweb.org/awards
#Hypertext #ACM

🎓 HT Award Spotlight – Ted Nelson Newcomer Award 2010

Heiko Haller & Andreas Abecker: iMapping – a zooming interface for visually organizing personal knowledge, combining spatial hypertext with mind- and concept-mapping.

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#Hypertext #ACM #Research #Innovation

🚀 Launching HT Award Spotlight!

Every week we’ll highlight past Hypertext winners: 🏆 Best Paper & 🎓 Best Student Paper.

Celebrating Hypertext’s history & inspiring you to explore innovative hypertext research.

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#Hypertext #ACM #Research

A Book That Behaved Like the Internet Long Before It Existed

Before platforms, feeds, and algorithms, hypertext quietly rewired culture. We no longer experience the world as a tidy sequence of causes and effects. #hypertext

ACM Hypertext 2026 – An ACM SIGWEB Conference

📢 #HT2026 Paper Deadline Extended! 📢
More time to submit your research!

📝 New deadline: April 17

Submit your work and join the latest discussions in hypertext research.
🔗 Details: ht.acm.org/ht2026/

#HT2026 #ACM #Hypertext #Research #CFP

XR for Conferences & knowledge work with live demos from Ken Perlin & Frode Hegland. Sam Brooker introduced ACM Hypertext 2026. Key question: is spatial computing for navigating or creating knowledge?
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FutureOfText #XR #Hypertext #SpatialComputing #KnowledgeWork

ACM Hypertext 2026 – An ACM SIGWEB Conference

📢 #HT2026 Workshop Deadline Extended! 📢
We’ve extended the Workshops submission deadline by two weeks!

🗓️ New deadline: March 13
Submit your proposal and join the conversation.
🔗 Details: [https://ht.acm.org/ht2026/](ht.acm.org/ht2026/

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Exploring representation problems using hypertext | Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext

What strategies can be employed to describe a problem and converge on an appropriate hypertext representation? This 1987 paper explored such representation issues with NoteCards, the hypermedia system written in Interlisp.

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#hypertext #NoteCards #interlisp #retrocomputing

Clock’s ticking! ⏳

The deadline for #ACMHT2026 workshop submissions is approaching fast.

📅 Deadline: Feb 27, 2026 (AoE)
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Get those proposals in! 🚀 #Hypertext #AcademicTwitter #CallForPapers

Explored foldable "origami text," debated HTML vs JSON for spatial documents, saw demos of Author — all circling the question of how to make knowledge truly spatial before big tech locks it down.
#FutureOfText #SpatialComputing #XR #OpenStandards #Hypertext
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“Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies Michael Satlow and a team of Israel-based scholars plan to develop advanced AI and natural language processing techniques — adapted for historical Hebrew and Aramaic sources — to analyze more than 130,000 texts spanning 18 centuries.” […]

ACM Hypertext 2026 – An ACM SIGWEB Conference

📢 Hypertext 2026 is officially open! 📢

The website and Call for Papers for #HT2026 are now LIVE. Join us for the latest in hypertext research, social media dynamics, and beyond.

📍 London 🗓️ September 14-18 📝 Deadlines and details: ht.acm.org/ht2026/

#ACM #Hypertext #Research #TechConference #CFP

5 Jan 2026 – Future Text Lab

Future Text Lab: This week we explored how letters become living knowledge in XR—where environment, reader intent, and spatial context matter more than pages, and workspaces matter more than documents.
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#FutureOfText #XR #SpatialComputing #KnowledgeDesign #Hypertext

22 Dec 2025 – Future Text Lab

Future Text Lab: Exploring how text, metadata, and XR reshape reading, authorship, and curation—when books become bindable, readers become curators, and machines become audiences.
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#FutureOfText #XR #Hypertext #DigitalReading #ScholarlyCommunication

1 Dec 2025 – Future Text Lab

A deep dive into XR-era text: citation’s print legacy, AI as iterative dialogue, stretch text as cognition, and why focused themes matter for inclusive research communities.
1 December 2025

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#XR
#AI
#KnowledgeDesign
#Hypertext

A Norton Guide collection As I've mentioned a few times on this blog, I've long had a bit of a thing for writing tools for reading the content of Norton Guide files. I first used Norton Guides back in the early 1990s thanks to...

I'm building an online #NortonGuide collection, in the hope of preserving all those handy help files we used to work with back in the #MSDOS days. Can you help?

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#help #hypertext #clipper #caclipper #xbase

A Norton Guide collection As I've mentioned a few times on this blog, I've long had a bit of a thing for writing tools for reading the content of Norton Guide files. I first used Norton Guides back in the early 1990s thanks to the release of Clipper 5, and later on in that decade I wrote my first couple of tools to turn guides into HTML (and also write a Windows-based reader, then rewrote it, wrote one for OS/2, wrote one for GNU/Linux, and so on). One tool (ng2html) got used by a few sites on the 'net to publish all sorts of guides, but it's not something I ever got into doing myself. Amusingly, from time to time, because I had a credit on those sites as the author of the conversion tool, I'd get random emails from people hoping I could help them with the topic of whatever guide they'd been reading. Sometimes I could help, often not. From what I've recently been told two of the biggest sites for this sort of thing (they might even have been the same site, or one a copy of the other, I didn't really dive into them too much and wasn't sure who was behind them anyway) have long since gone offline. This means that, as far as I can tell, a huge collection of knowledge from the DOS days is a lot harder to get to, if it hasn't disappeared altogether. This makes me kind of sad. So I had an idea: having recently polished up my replacement for ng2html, why not use that to build my own site that publishes the guides I have? So I set about it. There's one wrinkle to this though. While the other sites seemed to just publish every NG file they got their hands on, I'd prefer to try and do it like this: publish every guide I have in my collection that I have a licence or permission to publish; or as near as possible1 Given all of this, norton-guides.davep.dev has been born. The repository that drives it is on GitHub, and I have a wiki page that lists all the guides I have that I could possibly publish, showing what I know about the copyright/licence of each one and what the publishing state is. So with this, I'm putting out a call for help: if you remember the days of Norton Guide help files, if you have Norton Guide help files I don't have, and especially if you are the copyright-holder of any of these files and you can extend me the permission to open them up, or if you know the right people and can get me in touch with them, DROP ME A LINE! I'd also love to have others join me in this... quest. So if you want to contribute to the repository and help build it up I'd also love to hear from you. I will possibly be a little permissive when it comes to things that I believe contain public domain information to start with. ↩

I'm building an online #NortonGuide collection, in the hope of preserving all those handy help files we used to work with back in the #MSDOS days. Can you help?

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#help #hypertext #clipper #caclipper #xbase

How the RESISTORS Put Computing into 1960s Counter-culture **__In late April of** 1968, a computer conference in Atlantic City, N.J., got off to a rocky start. A strike by telephone operators prevented exhibitors from linking their terminals to off-site computers, as union-sympathetic workers refused to wire up the necessary connections. Companies’ displays were effectively dead. This article is an adapted excerpt from W. Patrick McCray’s README: A Bookish History of Computing From Electronic Brains to Everything Machines (The MIT Press, 2025).MIT Press But a small cohort of teenage computer enthusiasts from the Princeton, N.J., area flaunted a clever work-around: They borrowed an acoustic coupler—a forerunner of the computer modem—and connected it to a nearby pay phone. With this hardware in place, the youngsters dialed in to an off-site minicomputer. The teenagers called themselves the RESISTORS, a retronym (they picked the moniker first and then matched words to the letters) for “Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, Or Research Studies.” The trade publication __Computerworld__ gave the RESISTORS front-page billing—“Students Steal Show as Conference Opens”—and noted how the group drew a “fascinated crowd” of computer professionals. A reporter even suggested that the RESISTORS represented the vanguard of a small-scale social movement as the teens sought to engage with their counterparts from “underprivileged areas of Trenton” and introduce them to personal computing. RESISTOR Peter Eichenberger works on a DEC PDP-8 computer, which Claude Kagan convinced the company to donate to the group.Chuck Ehrlich In the modern history of computing, a story about a small cohort of teens “playing” with computers might seem tangential. But the previously untold history of the RESISTORS highlights the fact that, years before there were machines called personal computers, some people regularly accessed computers for activities unrelated to their professional lives. Motives varied, but entertainment as well as the display of technical prowess mattered. Just as important, the story of the RESISTORS expands our sense of the hobbyist community beyond later and better-known groups like the Bay Area’s Homebrew Computer Club. ### ## An early computer club for teens Fewer than 70 kids claimed membership in the RESISTORS over the group’s roughly decade-long existence. Nonetheless, a surprisingly large number of them went on to have careers in technology and science. Two members wrote books about computing that would sell millions of copies. Another member cofounded Cisco Systems, which got its start manufacturing Internet routers and other networking hardware and is now a multibillion-dollar business. Others became college professors or professional programmers. And starting around 1969, the RESISTORS became linked to computer pioneer Ted Nelson (more on that later). An engineer named Claude Kagan was the nucleus around which the RESISTORS first organized. Born in 1924 in Orval, France, Kagan moved to the United States as a teen, served in the army, and earned an M.S. from Cornell University in 1950. He took a position with Western Electric, the manufacturing arm of AT&T, and in 1958, he moved to Hopewell Township, N.J., a short drive from Princeton. Electrical engineer Claude Kagan [second from left] encouraged the RESISTORS to learn computing, using the large collection of used equipment stored in his barn. Chuck Ehrlich Kagan’s specialty was high-level computer languages, such as Fortran and BASIC, in which programmers write code that is largely independent of the particular type of computer. He was also an inveterate collector of old computers and other electronics, which he stored in a large red barn on his property that was also home to some donkeys and malamutes. Chuck Ehrlich, one of the original RESISTORS and later an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, recalls that in late 1966, he and a small group of “brainy social outcasts” were looking for some sort of clubhouse. The kids weren’t interested in smoking pot or social protests, and they were disenchanted with the science classes offered at their local schools. But they were into electronics. Kagan knew one of the teens’ fathers and offered to let the group use his barn. They soon discovered Kagan’s collection of artifacts, including a surplus IBM paper tape punch, some analog telephone equipment, and a Friden Flexowriter (a kind of heavy-duty typewriter that could be linked to a computer). The first computer the RESISTORS used was a Burroughs Datatron 205 mainframe, which occupied most of two walls in Kagan’s barn.David Gesswein But the main attraction for the teens were Kagan’s computers. The most imposing of these was a Burroughs Datatron 205, a computer first manufactured in the mid-1950s and based on vacuum tubes. The enormous machine weighed several tons, and stories circulated about how Kagan had borrowed a tractor trailer to heroically transport the behemoth from Michigan to New Jersey. Only slightly less imposing was an inoperable Packard Bell PB250, a refrigerator-size computer of more recent vintage that the teens managed to get working. Kagan also allowed the teens to connect to his employer’s DEC PDP-8 machine via teletype over phone lines so they could run programs written in TRAC (Text Reckoning And Compiling). Developed starting in 1959 by computer scientist Calvin Mooers, TRAC was an efficient language amenable to being run on machines that had relatively little memory. The teens were fond of connecting to the off-site computer and accessing a version of Joseph Weizenbaum’s ELIZA chatbot program. Being able to work with computers interactively and in real time was generally unavailable to nonprofessional computer users at the time. Kagan eventually persuaded the Digital Equipment Corp. to donate a PDP-8—no trivial gift, as new models sold for US $15,000 or more—which the RESISTORS worked with in the barn. One of the donkeys in Claude Kagan’s barn looks on as RESISTOR Doug Timbie works on some equipment.John A. Pietras/The Evening Times; Trenton Free Public Library The bargain Kagan struck with the RESISTORS was unusual for several reasons. First, Kagan was gay, a fact that the teens (and their parents) were aware of but which, by all accounts, bothered no one. When the Hopewell Valley Jaycee-ettes held a house tour in April 1966, the brochure encouraged people to visit Kagan’s “unique bachelor setting” that he shared with artist George Furnish. Furnish passed away around the time the RESISTORS were forming, and the grieving Kagan assumed multiple roles for the group: guru, mentor, publicity agent, and landlord. Kagan provided the space, while the teens were responsible for maintaining both it and the equipment as well as covering the cost of electricity. Most amateur computer clubs of the era were masculine spaces, but photographs of the RESISTORS almost always show one or more young women working at a terminal or solving a programming problem. When it came to deciding whose turn it was to use a machine, Jean Hunter—later a professor of biological and environmental engineering at Cornell—likened it to social time-sharing that required “beating people over the head to make them give you a turn.” John R. Levine, who was a RESISTOR before studying computer science at Yale and later coauthoring the bestseller __The__ __Internet for Dummies__, recalled, “We were so nerdy that it didn’t occur to us that girls [would] be any different in terms of what they could do.” There were also efforts to recruit African American teens from schools in Trenton. One of these kids, Joseph Tulloch, provided quirky, Dr. Seuss-like illustrations for a programming manual that Kagan and the teens assembled and published. Tulloch later became a programmer for the state of New Jersey. New members were initiated into the group by having an omega sign, the engineer’s symbol for electrical resistance, drawn on their face with a Magic Marker (these were teenagers after all). One of the first things a new member would learn was how to use TRAC to write programs. For his part, Kagan held a dim view of traditional learning as practiced in local classrooms. He instead insisted that the RESISTORS learn by doing. The group’s pedagogical approach came from the African American motto “Each one, teach one.” As one member recalled, “If you want to teach someone how to do something, you had to let them sit at the keyboard.” The RESISTORS’ location in the Princeton area contributed to their success. Several members had parents employed at nearby technology companies, such as AT&T and RCA. Others, such as Nat Kuhn, had parents who worked at Princeton University. Kuhn’s father was Thomas Kuhn, a historian and author of __The Structure of Scientific Revolutions__ (1962), the landmark book that introduced “paradigm shift” into the vernacular. Twelve-year-old Nat Kuhn was just 10 when he joined the RESISTORS. “I was super geeky,” he later recalled. David Fox As a kid, Nat built devices from hobbyist electronics kits with his father, a former physicist. Nat joined the RESISTORS after attending an open house the group sponsored in February 1968 at the Princeton Junior Museum. He was just 10 years old at the time. “I was super geeky,” he recalled, “and the computer became my hobby and obsession. You could understand things through it and make things happen.” Soon after Nat had his face inked with an omega sign, another person, much older but just as passionate about personal computing, started showing up at Claude Kagan’s barn. ## Ted Nelson and the birth of hypertext Ted Nelson had majored in philosophy at Swarthmore College, graduating in 1959, and then studied sociology at the University of Chicago and later Harvard, where he took his first computer course. Nelson’s 2010 autobiography includes a whole chapter, titled “The Epiphany of Ted Nelson,” about this revelatory experience. When he realized that the computer, instead of a dreary number-crunching device, “could be whatever it was programmed to be,” his “world exploded.” Ted Nelson met the RESISTORS in the late 1960s, when he was developing his ideas around hypertext and globally interconnected networks for publishing.Ted Nelson Nelson had a penchant for writing, and so an even bigger revelation was that computers could handle text by manipulating, storing, printing, and, above all, displaying it on screens. And, if this could be done with text, it could probably also be done with images and sound. “The future of mankind was at the computer screen,” he decided, as the “interactive computer would become the workplace of the future.” Equally profound for Nelson was recognizing that once a person had text on a computer screen, they could use it to construct parallel, nonsequential textual passages. These word assemblages could then be linked to one another or branch off in entirely new directions—a farsighted idea for the time. In 1964, Nelson accepted a teaching position at Vassar College, where his new colleagues invited him to describe how the future of work and artistic creativity would happen on computer screens. In the promotional flyer for the talk, he introduced a new word: hypertext. Some of the ideas that Ted Nelson discussed with the RESISTORS later turned up in Nelson’s opus Computer Lib/Dream Machines.Microsoft Press As Nelson defined it in a 1965 paper, hypertext meant “a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper.” Almost any topic could, in principle, be represented on a computer screen with “links” connecting one entry to another, along with annotation, footnotes, and summaries, while also including “every feature a novelist or absent-minded professor could want.” RELATED VIDEO: Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn From the Past Nelson imagined that his system of information storage, retrieval, and documentation could “grow indefinitely,” containing more and more of the world’s knowledge while revealing important connections between all of the entries. Nelson soon quit Vassar and started raising money and his professional profile. His goal was to design and implement a universal text handling, publishing, and globally connected electronic library system, which he named Project Xanadu, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan.” (It’s also the name of Charles Foster Kane’s mansion in Orson Welles’s 1941 classic, __Citizen Kane__.) Xanadu would turn into Nelson’s lifelong obsession. ## A convergence of art and computers The catalyst that brought Nelson together with Claude Kagan and the RESISTORS wasn’t some new computer but an avant-garde art show. In the fall of 1970, a lavish new exhibition titled __Software__ opened at the Jewish Museum in New York City. Museum director Karl Katz handpicked the influential art theorist Jack Burnham to curate the show. Burnham, in turn, was inspired by Norbert Wiener’s cybernetic concepts and wanted to explore how conceptual artists might experiment with new computing technologies, such as “real-time computing” and “interactivity,” in a gallery setting. The exhibition gave thousands of visitors an opportunity to see, and in some cases use, minicomputers, teletype equipment, high-speed copy machines, and closed-circuit television. When the Jewish Museum launched an ambitious art and tech exhibition in 1970, members of the RESISTORS collaborated with artists and provided tech support. The Jewish Museum A contributor to the show and its technical adviser, Ted Nelson recruited the RESISTORS to help him and some of the artists. As he later wrote in his influential 1974 book __Computer Lib/Dream Machines__, “Some people are too proud to ask children for information. This is dumb. Information is where you find it.” For Agnes Denes, a Hungarian-born conceptual artist, the teens coded a minicomputer to animate triangles on a screen for a piece called __Trigonal Ballet__. For conceptual artist Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim, the teens used the I Ching to program a piece called __Conceptual Typewriter.__ A visitor could select one of several buttons, such as “the silent” (represented by a circle) or “the providing” (illustrated by sheaves of wheat), and then use a light pen to alter the image. Both artists provided the initial ideas, but the RESISTORS executed them. Nelson, working with programmer Ned Woodman, contributed a piece titled __Labyrinth__. Running on a PDP-8 that DEC provided, __Labyrinth__ was explained as “the first public demonstration of a hypertext system.” To use it, a visitor would sit at a terminal and begin reading the displayed text. For the passage “The exhibition you are attending is called __Software__. It was organized by Jack Burnham,” you could use keystrokes (such as __F__ for __forward__) to navigate the text and retrieve a definition of “software” or biographical details about Burnham. Conceptual artist Agnes Denes [right] programmed her piece _Trigonal Ballet_ at the Jewish Museum with help from RESISTORS [from left] Peter Eichenberger, J Laurence Sarno, and John Levine.The Jewish Museum For many museumgoers, the entire exhibition suggested a technological future where people easily navigated the information-rich realm of what would become known as cyberspace. The RESISTORS, meanwhile, gradually faded throughout the 1970s as its members went off to college and the supply of new recruits dwindled. Nonetheless, members like Nat Kuhn and John Levine recall that ideas they bantered about in bull sessions with Nelson in Kagan’s barn materialized later in the pages of __Computer Lib/Dream Machines__. “There was certainly very little in that book that we hadn’t already heard about before it appeared,” Levine said. When I talked with former RESISTORS, it was surprising to hear how many members remained in touch with one another more than a half-century later. Many of them still included their participation on résumés. Courtships formed, and at least two members married each other. Their activities left a long-lasting echo in the world of computing as well. Len Bosack cofounded Cisco Systems. Cynthia Dwork, a professor of computer science at Harvard, made pioneering contributions to cryptography. Steve Kirsch was one of two people to invent the optical mouse and went on to become a successful tech entrepreneur. Claude Kagan’s computer-filled barn in Hopewell Township, N.J., shown here in 2008, was the headquarters for the RESISTORS. David Gesswein Even as the RESISTORS were fading as a group, massive technological changes were just over the horizon. Personal computers, introduced in the early 1970s, soon became consumer goods found in hundreds of thousands of homes. That technological revolution would be solidified when __Time__ named the PC “Machine of the Year” in 1982. New computing worlds beckoned to experts and neophytes alike, but it was a future that a group of teens in a New Jersey barn had already seen and lived. _This article is adapted from the author’s new book,_ README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines _(The MIT Press, 2025)._

An insightful analogy was drawn between the Kernel Explorer and the Talmud's layered commentary. This sparked a discussion on hypertext concepts, highlighting how deep, interconnected explanations can illuminate complex code structures. #Hypertext 5/6

Bright green-for-white colorized black and white photo of a hand pointing a silver cylindrical light pen with a black tip at a word of glowing green text on a CRT screen. IBM 2250 vector CRT display Hypertext Editing System (1969) Brown University Providence RI USA Photo by Greg Lloyd Kodak Plus-X 35mm BW

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Werkzeug >> Tool

Light pen, colorized photo
IBM 2250 vector CRT display
Hypertext Editing System (1969)
Brown University
Providence RI USA

#photography #hypertext #brownuniversity

Index page for {MEDLEY}/notecards/docs/user-guide-v2.0/

We added "NoteCards User’s Guide" V2.0 to the NoteCards sources. This 1991 manual better matches the NoteCards code that comes with Medley Interlisp but some of the information is only of historical value.

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#interlisp #NoteCards #hypertext #retrocomputing

Screenshot of the black and white desktop of a 1980s graphical workstation environment. The desktop has a gray background pattern and several windows with a white background and a title bar with white text on a black background. The windows display graph structures with nodes and links and other tools of a hypertext system.

In NoteCards a "tabletop card" is an arrangement of cards (hypertext nodes) on the screen, such as the 3 cards at the center.

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#NoteCards #interlisp #hypertext #retrocomputing

Screenshot of the black and white desktop of a 1980s graphical workstation environment. The desktop has a gray background pattern and several windows with a white background and a title bar with white text on a black background. The windows display a graph structure with nodes and links and other tools of a hypertext system.

A NoteCards "browser" is a type of card that shows a hypertext network as a graph structure, i.e. a graph view like in this example. The thumbnail at the top left corner lets you pan and scroll the graph.

#NoteCards #Interlisp #hypertext #retrocomputing

Although NoteCards predated the WWW, in the early days of the web the Xerox PARC hypermedia system was also used for research on the design, analysis, and documentation of web sites such as the projects described in these papers.

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I'm reading Borges' “Garden of Forking Paths” collection. I was inspired to do so because I've heard people reference the title story in connection with hypertext.

That combined with searching through archives for mysterious texts in “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” reminded me of this URL (make […]

Exciting news: The 37th ACM #Hypertext Conference 2026 will take place in London #ht2026. Join in and follow @acmht.bsky.social for updates.

Screenshot of Notecards.

Screenshot of Notecards.

At ACM #Hypertext @acmht.bsky.social: Mark Anderson talking about spatial hypertext and its origins, also referring to Frank Halasz's #NoteCards. See his full paper “W(h)ither Spatial Hypertext?” at doi.org/10.1145/3720...
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