Talk:Hypertext

MediaWiki vs. Wikimedia

The article mentions Wikimedia (the foundation). In this context, shouldn't that be MediaWiki (the software) instead? --Steven Fisher 06:36, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Correcting mis-sourced origin date for Nelson's neologism ‘Hypertext’

Until this [] edit in 2011, the origin of the term ‘hypertext’ was held to be 1965. The cited edit changed this (incorrectly) to 1963 but gave no reference. Yet ‘hypertext’ is only first known, in print, from in three contexts all in 1965:

• January 1965. A talk at Vassar Computers, Creativity, And The Nature of The Written Word (see Nelson's memoir Possiplex (p.149) but which Nelson has stated was ‘only in mimeograph’, i.e. not formally in print.
• 24–26 August, 1965 The Proceedings of the 1965 20th National Conference, pp.84–100.
• October 1965. The Hypertext in Congress of the International Federation for Documentation—see https://archive.org/details/thehypertext/TheHypertext/).

Whilst Nelson likely had the notion of interlinked documents for some while previously, it was thus August 1965 when the use of the word ‘Hypertext’ was first recorded in print. Indeed, in the Vassar talk (and in Vassar internal publications reporting int) the form used was ‘hypert-text’, reflecting the lack of a clearly cited usage.

The Ted Nelson pages correctly references the August 1965 ACM Conference but—likely due to this page—then incorrectly states 1963 as the origin source.

Correcting this and the derivative error on the Ted Nelson page should fix a large number of incorrect of references that use this page's body copy as a primary source (rather than that page's correct [sic] primary sources).

Further reference sources: Nelson's Literary Machines (Editions '81 through '93), Belinda Barnet's Memory Machines (Ch.4, 2013, Anthem Press), Dechow & Stuppa's Intertwingled; the work and influence of Ted Nelson (2015, Springer Open) Mwra (talk) 21:56, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

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