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Rosemary Simpson has contributed greatly to hypertext research over the years, both in innovative system design and in her painstaking indexing of the Proceedings of The Hypertext Conference. She has now given us all a valuable new Web resource on the development of hypertext: Memex and Beyond.
The core of Simpson's new site is information: a carefully conceived, detailed index, hand-crafted by a professional. Named for Memex -- an imaginary hypertext machine that Vannevar Bush described
in The Atlantic in 1946, and that is often considered
the first real description of hypertext technology -- this web site provides
a detailed index to the most important work in the development of hypertext. Browsing through the index
yields a fascinating collage of images, from the mundane (database, object oriented)
to the bizarre (death, of text).
This is very much a work in progress, and Simpson has ambitious plans for a custom
VR navigation applet and embedded Web Squirrel information farms. For now, aside from some ornamental images, this is a plain
and simple web resource. Simpson's Memex and Beyond is not always easy reading, but hypertext readers
and writers will find many rewards.
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