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text that stopped behaving like text and started behaving like a nervous system.
means writing containing links that jump you to other writing, breaking the old rule that words must be read in order.
from coined by ted nelson in 1965 for his project xanadu, though the underlying dream of associative, non-linear reference traces back to vannevar bush's 1945 memex essay.
coined1965, by ted nelson
xanadu delaynelson's project took over 50 years to ship
html debttim berners-lee borrowed the term, not the vision
nelson's regrethe called the web a shallow imitation of xanadu
for instance
world wide web — berners-lee, 1989, cern, built on hyperlinked html pages
project xanadu — ted nelson's original hypertext system, released 1998 after decades
hypercard — apple's 1987 stack-based hypertext tool, ran on every mac
wikipedia — 2001, blue links turning encyclopedia entries into a web of tangents