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Memory Machines

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This book explores the history of hypertext, an influential concept that forms the underlying structure of the World Wide Web and innumerable software applications.
  • 01 December 2014
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This book explores the history of hypertext, an influential concept that forms the underlying structure of the World Wide Web and innumerable software applications. Barnet tells both the human and the technological story by weaving together contemporary literature and her exclusive interviews with those at the forefront of hypertext innovation, tracing its evolutionary roots back to the analogue machine imagined by Vannevar Bush in 1945.

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Price: $40.00
Pages: 192
Publisher: Anthem Press
Imprint: Anthem Press
Publication Date: 01 December 2014
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781783083442
Format: Paperback
BISACs: COMPUTERS / Languages / HTML, Computer networking and communications, COMPUTERS / History, COMPUTERS / Languages / General
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‘“Memory Machines” will appeal to anyone who is curious about the history of computing in general and hypertext in particular. This book is highly recommended for computer science students and for students of history of science and technology, as well as for computing and engineering enthusiasts.’ —Stephanie Wical, Online Information Review

Belinda Barnet is a lecturer in media and communications at Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia.

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Foreword: To Mandelbrot in Heaven – Stuart Moulthrop; Preface; Chapter 1: Technical Evolution; Chapter 2: Memex as an Image of Potentiality; Chapter 3: Augmenting the Intellect: NLS; Chapter 4. The Magical Place of Literary Memory: Xanadu; Chapter 5: Seeing and Making Connections: HES and FRESS; Chapter 6: Machine-Enhanced (Re)minding: The Development of Storyspace; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index