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The concept of an open hypertext environment is now accepted as the best way to provide a flexible and extensible approach to the provision of hypertext functionality. Although very popular, the World Wide Web system created at CERN in Switzerland is a closed system, and suffers a number of drawbacks as a result. This paper describes how an open hypertext approach may benefit users and authors of World Wide Web material, and illustrates how the World Wide Web may be extended to provide a more open hypertext model.
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Hill, G., Hall, W., De Roure, D., Carr, L. (1996). Applying Open Hypertext Principles to the WWW. In: Fraïssé, S., Garzotto, F., Isakowitz, T., Nanard, J., Nanard, M. (eds) Hypermedia Design. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3082-6_18
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