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Disaster, doubt, and the origins of hypertext

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Hypertext and the World Wide Web are built on a complex network of ideas that originate in the military and ecological disasters of the short 20th Century, 1914--1989, and in a world-spanning intellectual effort to prevent their recurrence. Though that effort now appears to have failed, and though the tragic story of the 20th Century has not, it seems, concluded, we may learn profit by examining the concepts and ideals on which hypertext was built.

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    ACM SIGWEB Newsletter  Volume 2022, Issue Summer
    Summer 2022
    40 pages
    ISSN:1931-1745
    EISSN:1931-1435
    DOI:10.1145/3545196
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