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From: thom@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Thom Gillespie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: "HyperCard IS a HyperText application"
Summary: Let's not forget the word hypermedia and antiquity!
Keywords: hypermedia hypertext "Liber Floridus"
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Date: 4 Apr 89 06:02:52 GMT
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If HyperCard was 'just' hypertext then very few people would be interested in
it since books deal with text just dandy. It is only when you move to media
that you begin to salivate - it gets interesting. No need to discuss hypertext,
let's just do hypermedia, and hypercard 'is' hypermedia!!

IBM has a new term they are trotting around but I forget what it is. Amiga used
to call it desktop video or something, still just hypermedia now.

Heck if you want to talk hypertext you might go back to illuminated manuscripts
from the 6-14th century and look at 'gloss text'. They were dealing with the
same issues we are dealing with now, extensions and annotations to text. A
fellow named Lambert who did the "Liber Floridus"( may not be spelled right)
used to sew in new small pages to a page of parchment, he also didn't bind his
material so you could use it in a none linear fashion. This is to also say
nothing of his illustrations and use of hierarchical text style. We aren't
really doing much new , just quicker.


Thom Gillespie