Word: hypertexts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everything from simple text to a few interactive multimedia presentations, and the staff of Icon is eager to teach and train aspiring webmasters and curious beginners in the ways of web design. While the magazine currently contains mostly traditional pieces, it seems to be leaning in the direction of hypertext literature and net art, giving it the potential to become Harvard's most cutting-edge publication. Contact Icon with your own ideas or just a willingness to learn; at least check out the website...
...fact, is what the millennial Office is all about. Virtually every program is designed to interact with the Net. When you create a Word document, for instance, you can save it in the Web's native language, HTML, and upload it to your website. Or add hypertext links to your Word file, or implant e-mail addresses without knowing how to write a line of code. And when Word converts your text to HTML, it saves your formatting so that headline-size fonts, italic text and so on show up online pretty much as they appeared on your screen. Likewise...
...also a prophet. In 1945, dismayed by the wartime info overload, he proposed a desktop machine, the "memex," that would display text and pictures (from a microfilm library) at the press of a button. Presciently, Bush envisioned users of his proto-PC following trails of knowledge along storable hypertext "links," much like today's Web surfers...
Building on ideas that were current in software design at the time, Berners-Lee fashioned a kind of "hypertext" notebook. Words in a document could be "linked" to other files on Berners-Lee's computer; he could follow a link by number (there was no mouse to click back then) and automatically pull up its related document. It worked splendidly in its solipsistic, Only-On-My-Computer...
...cobbled together a relatively easy-to-learn coding system--HTML (HyperText Mark-up Language)--that has come to be the lingua franca of the Web; it's the way Web-content creators put those little colored, underlined links in their text, add images and so on. He designed an addressing scheme that gave each Web page a unique location, or url (universal resource locator). And he hacked a set of rules that permitted these documents to be linked together on computers across the Internet. He called that set of rules HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol...