Path: utzoo!hoptoad!uunet!cos!smith
From: smith@COS.COM (Steve Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.hypertext
Subject: Re: Does this group really exist
Message-ID: <870@cos.COM>
Date: 27 Jan 88 22:02:31 GMT
References: <3468@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <757@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: smith@cos.UUCP (Steve Smith)
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems, McLean, VA
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In article <757@brandx.rutgers.edu> webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber) writes:

>...  To approach the nitty-gritty details
>of hypertext, we seem to lack two things: a common implementation of hypertext
>and a body of information to contemplate the hypertexting of.  

> ...

>----- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)


A body of information to "hypertext"?  You're looking at it!  Seriously,
net news has most of the attributes that would make a hypertext system
valuable.  Consider - news has

*LOTS* of text (We ain't looking at toys, here)
*LOTS* of machines
Discussion threads with lots of branches
backward references (on the References line above)
forward references (given the original article, find this one)

-- 
 -- Steve           (smith@cos.com)           (uunet!cos!smith)
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."