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  1. "The open web was built on assumptions such as that visitors are mostly human, that traffic roughly tracks readership, and that the cost of serving your site is related to the value you get from serving it. Every one of those assumptions is now out of date." /by @wlaatje at hci.social/@[email protected]

    #HistoryOfHypertext #ComputerHistory

  2. The development of Guide starts in 1982 at the University of Kent. Peter Brown has a first version running on a workstation one year later. In 1984 the British company Office Workstations Ltd. (OWL) gets interested and releases a Macintosh version in 1986. Soon thereafter Guide is ported to IBM-PCs. Guide becomes the first popular commercial #hypertext system.
    More at mprove.de/visionreality/text/2
    @clausatz @hist_HT #historyOfHypertext #historyOfComputing

  3. Tony Rodrigues says:
    "Matthias Müller-Prove's MSc thesis (2002) is a thing of beauty.

    He is one of the few computing scientists who understands the importance of Alan Kay's, Douglas Engelbart's and Ted Nelson's visionary works for the future of human civilization." /via :birdsite: twitter.com/softwarewisdom/sta

    >> mprove.de/visionreality/index.

    #computerhistory #historyOfComputing #HistoryOfHypertext #Hypertext #GUI