4.0 DTC 101

Hypertext & Hypermedia

Intro to networks and internet growth. Why? The open source and hacker ethic of

Reading:

As We May Think – Bush
Computer Lib/ Dream Machines 1974 – Ted Nelson

Additional Reading:

4.1 Networks of Knowledge

The Memex

Welcome to the Memex Machine!

Conceptualized by Vannevar Bush, memex was introduced in his 1945 article "As We May Think". He envisioned a device someone would use to store all of their books, records, research, and communications, "mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility": A memory index.

Ted Nelson- Xanadu > critic of web

4.2 The World Wide Web

Tim Berners-Lee > HTML > links

The first webpage Look at source code. Browser. Search. Net Neurtality.

4.3 Digital Texts

Hypermedia/Hypermedia

Cybertexts/Interactive Fiction/Games

4.4 Unit Exercise: Make a Webpage

Download a text editor for your computer: TextWrangler or Notepad++
Open a new file and save it as mypage.html
See how html tags enclose content
Add a heading using h1 tag
Add a p tag
Look up more tags to use.
Make a link to this site
Upload your page to the class server directory

4.5 Glossary

4.6 Credits

All text by Will Luers.

All animation by Liliya Truderung.

All images and video are in the public domain or labled for non-commercial use.