Understanding a Vision: What is Hypertext?
Hypertext Literature: Honors Mentorship Research Project
Tidewater Community College, Humanities
199-G1B Spring 1999
Sadie L. Cornell
List of External Links
Below is a list of the external links found on this web site. Included where necessary is a brief description of the link that will help to identify the site in the event that the link should become unavailable.
Tidewater Community
College. http://www.tc.cc.va.us
Business Administration
http://vbbuslnx1.tc.cc.va.us/index.html
Information Systems
http://www.tc.cc.va.us/programs/istintas.htm
Sadie Cornell's programs of study at Tidewater Community College.
Old Dominion University. http://web.odu.edu/
S.Cornell
http://www.angelfire.com/sc/luvdsny13/
Home page of Sadie Cornell author of this project.
Donna Reiss
http://onlinelearning.tc.cc.va.us/faculty/tcreisd/
Home page of Professor Donna Reiss.
World Wide Web
http://search.eb.com/bol/topic?eu=2517&sctn=1#s_top
Encyclopędia Britannica Online. A definition of "World Wide
Web."
closure
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0286.html
The Electronic Labyrinth. "Closure." A definition of closure that
contrasts traditional literature with hypertextual literature.
beginning or ending
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0130.html
The Electronic Labyrinth. "Beginning and Ending
a Hyperbook: Possibilities for Authors." Help for authors attempting to create
hypertextual literature.
unexpected
changes http://raven.ubalt.edu/staff/moulthrop/hypertexts/hgs/HGStable.html
An online version of Hegirascope by Stuart Moulthrop. I feel that this hypertext
accurately conveys what I mean by "unexpected changes."
vertigo.
http://www.hearing-aid.net/html/balance.htm
Bay Area Ear Nose and Throat Center. Provides a definition of "vertigo."
Theodor Holm Nelson
http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~ted/TN/PUBS/WritingsPage.html
First coined the term "hypertext." Definition of hypertext.
Roland Barthes
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/ht/history.html
Professor of Literary Semiology at Brown University. Definition of hypertext.
Kimberly
Amaral
http://www.umassd.edu/public/people/KAmaral/thesis/hypertext.html#what is hypertext
A full-time graduate student in the biology/marine biology master's program
at UMass-Dartmouth. Definition of hypertext.
Hypertext
Webster Gateway
http://work.ucsd.edu:5141/cgi-bin/http_webster?isindex=hypertext&method=exact
An online hypertextual dictionary. Definition of hypertext.
Concise
Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/06216.html
Definition of hypertext.
Encyclopędia Britannica
Online http://search.eb.com/bol/topic?eu=1637&sctn=1#s_top
Definition of hypertext.
"As We
May Think"
http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm
The Atlantic monthly. Online version of Vannevar Bush's
article "As We May Think." 1945
Vannevar Bush
http://search.eb.com/bol/topic?eu=18540&sctn=1#s_top
Encyclopędia Britannica Online. Biography.
First
computerized hypertext system demonstrated in http://www.bootstrap.org/services.htm#6
Bootstrap Institute was founded by Doug Engelbart and is co-operated with his daughter
Christina Engelbart. Bootstrap Institute incorporated in 1988 as a California corporation,
but operates more like a non-profit institute in its quest to form strategic alliances
aimed at dramatically improving organizations and society at large.
Douglas Englebart
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0035.html
The Electronic Labyrinth."Douglas Englebart." Biography.
Hypertext
at Brown http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/HTatBrown/BrownHT.html
Hypertext at Brown University.
Concept of
Hypertext www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/ht/history.html#1
The Definition of Hypertext and Its History as a Concept by, George P. Landow.
George P. Landow
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/cv/gplbio.html
Professor of English and Art History. Biography.
Brown University. http://www.brown.edu/
Memex and Beyond
http://www.cs.brown.edu/memex/
Research, educational, and collaborative web site integrating the historical record of and
current research in hypermedia.
Historical milestones
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~jamie/hypertext-faq.html#Q1.5
alt.hypertext Frequently Asked Questions Attempts to answer frequently encountered
questions posed in the alt.hypertext newsgroup. A brief overview.
The Electronic Labyrinth
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0267.html
The Electronic Labyrinth."Timeline." A timeline of
the history of the book and its evolution with regard to hypertext.
First hypertext
conference, 1987 http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/ht/ht87.html
Hypertext'87 Proceedings, November 13-15, 1987, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
UNC, Chapel Hill. http://www.unc.edu/
87
Trip Report http://www.useit.com/papers/tripreports/ht87.html
Trip report given by Jakob Nielsen who attended the 1987 conference.
Jakob Nielsen
http://www.useit.com/jakob/
Jakob Nielsen's home page. Biography
Literary Machines
http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~ted/TN/PUBS/LM/LMpage.html
Downloadable version of Ted Nelson's Book Literary Machines.
Ted Nelson
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0155.html
The Electronic Labyrinth. "Ted Nelson and Xanadu."
Biography
Project Xanadu
http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~ted/XU/XuPageKeio.html
Project Xanadu is the name for Ted Nelson's hypertext work since 1960.
The
Computers of Tomorrow http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/unbound/flashbks/computer/greenbf.htm
The Atlantic Monthly. Article by Martin Greenberger. Greenberger posits
the possibility of an "information utility" and raises the question
of how government regulation might or might not play a role in this new
market.
Martin
Greenberger. http://www.agsm.ucla.edu/acad_unit/info_sys/fac-staf/bio-gree.htm
Home page of Martin Greenberger. Biography.
Hypertext
Novels http://publish.uwo.ca/~mgroden/606/computer.html
English 606 - Computers and Literary Study. List of literary resources including hypertext
literature.
Shelly Jackson
http://www.eastgate.com/people/Jackson.html
Eastgate Systems. Biography.
Reviews
http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/Patchwork.html
Reviews and a brief description of Patchwork Girl
by Shelley Jackson.
Stuart
Moulthrop. http://raven.ubalt.edu/staff/moulthrop/
Home page of Stuart Moulthrop. Biography.
Victory
Garden http://www.eastgate.com/VG/VGStart.html
Eastgate Systems. Online sampler of Stuart Moulthrop's Victory Garden.
Review
http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/VictoryGarden.html
Eastgate Systems. Review of Victory Garden by Stuart Moulthrop.
Hegirascope
http://raven.ubalt.edu/staff/moulthrop/hypertexts/hgs/HGStable.html
Online version of Stuart Moulthrop's Hegirascope.
Reviewed http://www.mindspring.com/~jntolva/hegira/review2.html
"This is Your Brain on the Internet": A Review of Stuart Moulthrop's
Hegirascope by John Tolva and David Balcom.
afternoon,a
story http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/Afternoon.html
Eastgate Systems. Review and description of afternoon,a story by Michael Joyce.
Michael
Joyce. http://www.eastgate.com/people/Joyce.html
Eastgate Systems. Biography.
Storyspace http://www.eastgate.com/storyspace/StoryspaceOV.html
Eastgate Systems. Description of Storyspace, Eastgate's hypertext writing environment.
Lyrical
Ballads http://is.dal.ca/~tetro/ww2/welcome.html
Hypertext project, variant printed texts of the lifetime editions of Wordsworth and
Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads.
British
Poetry http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html
1780-1910: A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions. An electronic library of marked up
and scholarly editions of books of poetry.
Deena
Larsen. http://www.eastgate.com/people/Larsen.html
Eastgate Systems. Biography.
Marble
Springs http://www.eastgate.com/MS/Title_184.html
Eastgate Systems. Review and description of Deena Larsen's poem Marble
Springs.
Review
http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/MarbleSprings.html
Eastgate Systems. Review of Deena Larsen's poem Marble springs.
E.J. Pratt: A Hypertext Edition.
http://www.trentu.ca/faculty/pratt/welcometext.html
A Brief Overview of the Complete Poems and Letters of E.J. Pratt.
Representation
and Victimization http://ariel.clc.wvu.edu/~swan/sw/ware/rep.html
A HyperCard application designed by Susan Warshauers to enable her students to gain
access to transcripts of their online discussions as well as the transcripts of student
discussions from past semesters.
Susan Warshauer
http://ariel.clc.wvu.edu/~swan/
Assistant Professor, Department of English Coordinator, Center for Literary Computing West
Virginia University. Biography.
Eastgate Systems Inc.
http://www.eastgate.com/
Eastgate Systems home page. Large listing of available literary hypertexts developed in
Storyspace.
WebPage
http://www.mindspring.com/~jntolva/main.html
A web site designed by John Tolva in the same "software" as
the majority of hypertext novels.
software http://www.eastgate.com/storyspace/StoryspaceOV.html
Eastgate Systems. Storyspace is Eastgate's hypertext writing environment.
Research paper
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~dcambrid/text/index.html
A research paper written as hypertext by Darren Cambridge Department
of English at The University of Texas
The
Victorian Web http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/victov.html
The Victorian Web by George P. Landow, a resource for courses in Victorian Literature.
George P. Landow
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/cv/gplbio.html
Home page of George P. Landow. Biography.
Hypertext:
http://www.tnellen.com/ted/hypertext.html
A multi-dimensional, non-sequential, interactive text presented at The
Conference: May 29, 1997, for the NYC Association of Assistant Principals
of English (NYCAAPSE) in association with Polytechnic University.
Hypertext The Electronic
Age. http://www.education.monash.edu.au/VATE/idiom/ilana.htm
An overview of the radical effects that hypertext is having on textual practices that
focuses on what we mean by text, author and reader. By Ilana Snyder
Ilana Snyder. http://www.education.monash.edu.au/VATE/idiom/isbio.htm
Home page of Ilana Snyder, School of Graduate Studies Faculty of Education, Monash
University Biography.
Hypertext: the convergence of contemporary critical theory & technology http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/ht/contents2.html
The seminal work on hypertext theory. By George P. Landow.
Hyperizons:
http://www.duke.edu/~mshumate/hyperfic.html
Hypertext Fiction. Writing, research and thinking about hypertext fiction.
Kairos
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/
A journal for teaching of writing in webbed environments.
The Electronic
Labyrinth. http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/elab.html
A study of hypertext technology, providing a guide to this rapidly growing field.
Web Study
Texts. http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts.htm
Literary web study texts developed by Ann Woodlief that include a variety of literary
works.
Ann
Woodlief http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/biofall.htm
English Department, VCU. Biography
Star Trek Hypertext:
http://st-hypertext.trekseek.com/
Extensive reviews of Star Trek episodes.
Hypertext
Webster http://work.ucsd.edu:5141/cgi-bin/http_webster
An online hypertextual dictionary.
Library of
Congress Vatican Exhibit
http://metalab.unc.edu/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/Main_Hall.html
Online exhibit offering views of art that you otherwise might not be able to see.
The following links are found in the poem "A Vision" by Sadie Cornell and were for the most part chosen at random from the resulting web search of that particular word.
Knowledge http://www.edge.org/
EDGE: To Arrive At The EDGE of The World's Knowledge. EDGE is an invitation-only Internet
forum where hundreds of the world's greatest scientists and thinkers share their thoughts
on issues ranging from the meaning of numbers to genetics to affirmative action
Power http://www.powersurfing.com/
Power Surfing.com teaches you how to utilize your favorite search engine
more efficiently and how each of the major search engines work.
unite
http://www.igc.apc.org/pbi/index.html
Peace Brigades International. Peace Brigades International (PBI) is a unique grassroots
organization exploring and implementing nonviolent approaches to peacekeeping and support
for basic human rights.
technology http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/TAA/TAA.html
The Technology for All Americans Project administered through the International Technology
Education Association.The project's goal in Phase I was to offer those who are interested
in technology education a clear vision of what it means to be technologically literate,
how this can be achieved at a national level, and why it is important for the nation.
natural http://mgfx.com/butterfly/
The Butterfly Website.Complete information on butterfly gardening, farming, ecology and
education.
boundaries
http://www.yorku.ca/courses/sosc1080/sem04g2/icen.html
"How To Censor The Web" (For Parents) By: Ivano Volpe & Andrew Kormanik
linear
progression http://www.interstat.net/~carolyn/ribbonstxt.html
A Comprehensive List of Ribbon Campaigns. Ribbons are used in web pages
to show support for a variety of causes.
oppression. http://www.aracnet.com/~libcoll/
Liberation Collective: linking social justice movements to end all oppression.
vision http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm
The Atlantic Monthly. Online version of Vannevar
Bush's article "As We May Think." 1945.
consciousness. http://sol.zynet.co.uk/imprint/jcs.html
Journal of consciousness studies: controversies in science and the humanities.
thoughts http://members.xoom.com/DeepThought/
Deep Thought. A web community were you may read thoughts posted by others as well as post
your own thoughts.
Minds http://www-hbp.scripps.edu/Home.html
The Human Brain Project World Wide Web Server.The Human Brain Project is a broad-based
long-term research initiative which supports research and development of advanced
technologies to open information superhighways to neuroscientists and behavioral
scientists by providing an array of information tools for the 21st Century.
Linked http://raven.ubalt.edu/features/crew/
Compact for Responsive Electronic Writing. The Compact: "Should a fellow user of the
World Wide Web request that I include within my own work a link to her or his work, I will
make every reasonable effort to accommodate that request."
forever http://www.123456789.net/
.Infinite Humanity. Infinite Humanity is the ultimate archive of human life as told by the
individual. Using the tools and resources of the Internet, Infinite Humanity has created
the world’s first ongoing archive for you to record your presence on this planet for
both today and future generations.
space http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/
Kennedy Space Center
servers
http://www.howstuffworks.com/web-server.htm
How Stuff Works: How Web Servers and the Internet Work. How Stuff Works is a great
place to learn about how things work in the world around you.
surfers.
http://www.meek.co.uk/surfing.asp
WEBLEICESTER - Surfing the Internet. WEBLEICESTER is an Internet Service Provider
(ISP) located in the UK that offers a wide range of internet services.
riding the wave,
http://www.waveridingvehicles.com
Wave Riding Vehicles Home Page
Internet
http://www.newbie-u.com/web/webcourse.html
Web 101 from Newbie-U. A tutorial designed to help you get acquainted and make you
comfortable using the Web for whatever purpose you have in mind.
Slaves http://www.umsl.edu/~muns/civilwar/civmain.htm
The Civil War and the Internet: A Case Study in the Use of Internet Resources.
choice http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html
The Blue ribbon Campaign. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other civil liberties
groups ask that a blue ribbon be displayed to show support for the essential human right
of free speech.
voice.
http://www.kcweb.com/vote/v_wel.htm
Voice of the Internet. This is a place for internet citizens to voice their opinions,
concerns, and
ideas, then share them with the powers that be. The Voice of the Internet is a series of
small, focused opinion polls ranging from your thoughts about Washington D.C., to abortion
and gun control.
What is next?
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,22875,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh
CNET News.com "Free Net access in the future?" Discusses
the possibility of free internet access and shows cases were it has been implemented.
Hypertext
http://www.umassd.edu/public/people/KAmaral/thesis/hypertext.html#what is hypertext
Kimberly Amaral, a full-time graduate student in the biology/marine
biology master's program at UMass-Dartmouth. Definition of hypertext.
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