References

Complex information processing; a file structure for the complex, the changing and the indeterminate

Theodor H. Nelson (1965)

Proceedings of the 1965 20th National Conference, 84-100.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/800197.806036

Abstract. Nelson's foundational paper coining "hypertext" and "hypermedia" — proposing software for non-linear writing where readers can branch through alternative paths. The intellectual ancestor of every linked-document system, despite his Project Xanadu remaining unrealised.

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