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Light pen, colorized photo
IBM 2250 vector CRT display
Hypertext Editing System (1969)
Brown University
Providence RI USA
alcinnz
boosted
Inspired by the prodigious self-titled #decker zine queen @milliesquilly:
https://zine.milliesquilly.com/
@noracodes made a #zine in Decker:
https://nora.codes/post/infrastructure-photography-manifesto-and-decker-in-html/
which got shared by @alcinnz and that’s where I discovered Decker, a platform that builds on the old-school interactive feel of #Hypercard and rocks that Classic MacOS look:
https://beyondloom.com/decker/
There's even a #Twine integration! Time for some non-linear, interactive #storytelling, #HyperText style.
Inspired by the prodigious self-titled #decker zine queen @milliesquilly:
https://zine.milliesquilly.com/
@noracodes made a #zine in Decker:
https://nora.codes/post/infrastructure-photography-manifesto-and-decker-in-html/
which got shared by @alcinnz and that’s where I discovered Decker, a platform that builds on the old-school interactive feel of #Hypercard and rocks that Classic MacOS look:
https://beyondloom.com/decker/
There's even a #Twine integration! Time for some non-linear, interactive #storytelling, #HyperText style.
Jamey Sharp
and 1 other
boosted
I made a zine in Decker, about why taking pictures of "ugly" things like power lines and train tracks feels meaningful to me. Also, I figured how to embed a Decker deck in a web page without an iframe!
https://nora.codes/post/infrastructure-photography-manifesto-and-decker-in-html/
I made a zine in Decker, about why taking pictures of "ugly" things like power lines and train tracks feels meaningful to me. Also, I figured how to embed a Decker deck in a web page without an iframe!
https://nora.codes/post/infrastructure-photography-manifesto-and-decker-in-html/
Greg Lloyd
boosted
In NoteCards a "tabletop card" is an arrangement of cards (hypertext nodes) on the screen, such as the 3 cards at the center.
A "guided tour" is a graph whose nodes are tabletop cards (table icons) and whose edges are links connecting the cards. You traverse a guided tour with the control panel at right and the result is a "slide show" of tabletops.
For more on tabletop cards and guided tours see:
In NoteCards a "tabletop card" is an arrangement of cards (hypertext nodes) on the screen, such as the 3 cards at the center.
A "guided tour" is a graph whose nodes are tabletop cards (table icons) and whose edges are links connecting the cards. You traverse a guided tour with the control panel at right and the result is a "slide show" of tabletops.
For more on tabletop cards and guided tours see:
Paolo Amoroso
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A NoteCards "browser" is a type of card that shows a hypertext network as a graph structure, i.e. a graph view like in this example. The thumbnail at the top left corner lets you pan and scroll the graph.
A NoteCards "browser" is a type of card that shows a hypertext network as a graph structure, i.e. a graph view like in this example. The thumbnail at the top left corner lets you pan and scroll the graph.
Matthias Müller-Prove's 2002 MSc thesis on the history of hypertext and GUIs is an introduction to these fields and their major systems, including NoteCards.
At ACM #Hypertext @ht: Mark Anderson talking about spatial hypertext and its origins, also referring to Frank Halasz's #NoteCards. See his full paper “W(h)ither Spatial Hypertext?” at http://doi.org/10.1145/3720553.3746683
@hist_HT @interlisp @amoroso
@barking 🧵As We May Not Think
Very enjoyable, and great live use of #aswemaythink trail tech!
I smiled at your note on Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort’s ‘New Media Reader’. It’s still a great read and has scholarly glosses — and sometimes full text — of original sources.
https://www.newmediareader.com/about.html
The NMR Book Samples page includes a free link to the excellent chapter on Ted Nelson’s ‘Computer Lib / Dream Machines’.
https://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-21-nelson.pdf
Let’s give Leaflet.pub a try!
@Roundtrip @marick "In 1969, IBM and Ted Nelson from Brown University gained permission from Nabokov's publisher to use Pale Fire as a demonstration of an early hypertext system and, in general, hypertext's potential. The unconventional form of the demonstration was dismissed in favour of a more technically oriented variant." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_fiction
Ted Nelson’s script for his proposed #PaleFire #Hypertext SJCC demo. Hypertext Editing System, 1969
@marick 🧵Stretchtext #hypertext
Ted Nelson Stretchtext
Hypertext Note 8. 29 April 1967.
“The text Stretches, becoming longer, with replacement phrases, new details and additional clauses popping into place. The good of this structure should be evident. The reader remains oriented. If he loses track of where he is, he "shrinks" the text to a higher, shorter level; if he wants to study a topic in more detail, he magnifies it.”
Nelson’s Law - Ted always said it first. 🙂
@marick The #hypertext author should be expected to craft an interesting trail that’s rewarding to explore, and fit for purpose, like a well scripted scene for a movie — fictional or documentary.
@marick 🧵#Hypertext Trails
Brian — or anyone — can you recommend a tool or app that can use a reference to the head of a Mastodon thread like this to create a neatly structured sequence of posts as a document that can be edited into a coherent linear trail? Markdown would be best, but anything would be helpful.
Not limited to a single author or simply linked thread, but using a depth first topological ordering from the root.
@marick You may recall that Nabokov — as Kinbote — in the Preface recommended a reading order that required purchasing two copies of the book. Pale Fire is the best example I know of an artfully crafted hypertext.
@marick The #hypertext author should be expected to craft an interesting trail that’s rewarding to explore, and fit for purpose, like a well scripted scene for a movie — fictional or documentary.
@marick I agree that it’s interesting to be able to branch away from the trail, shift trails, explore alternatives, but I also think it’s part of the author’s job to make it easy to find your way back and orient yourself.
Getting lost in #hypertext is a bug not a feature!
@marick The first time I read Nabokov’s #PaleFire, I decided to follow all of the links, depth first. I had to use six or seven numbered bookmarks to mark my place!
Since I was busy with other studies and CS, I read mainly late at night, but when I got sleepy, it took so much time to carefully review my bookmarks that I was wide awake again!
@marick I agree that it’s interesting to be able to branch away from the trail, shift trails, explore alternatives, but I also think it’s part of the author’s job to make it easy to find your way back and orient yourself.
Getting lost in #hypertext is a bug not a feature!