TY - JOUR
AU - Rosenzweig, Roy
AB - The Road to Xanadu: Public and Private Pathways on the History Web Roy Rosenzweig On August 24, 1965, Theodor Nelson presented a paper to the Association for Com­ puting Machinery national conference in which he introduced the word "hypertext" to refer to "a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper." Nelson, who had started musing about this sort of associative thinking and linking as a Har­ vard University graduate student in 1960, viewed "hypertext" as an integral part of an imagined globally interconnected library and publishing system that would "grow indefinitely, gradually including more and more of the world's written knowledge" and "have every feature a novelist or absent-minded professor could want, holding everything he wanted in just the complicated way he wanted it held, and handling notes and manuscripts in as subtle and complex ways as he wanted them handled." 1 Two years later, while working at the publisher Harcourt Brace, Nelson-an inveterate coiner of terms whose own Web page lists sixteen words or phrases that he claims to have introduced into general use-started to describe his global library as "Xanadu." "For 
TI - The Road to Xanadu: Public and Private Pathways on the History Web
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/2675105
DA - 2001-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-road-to-xanadu-public-and-private-pathways-on-the-history-web-IEJInSPJAb
SP - 548
EP - 579
VL - 88
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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