Text is linear
Text is unlinear
Text is said to be unlinear
Text is often said to be unlinear
Text is unlinear when written on paper
Digital text is different.
Digital text is more flexible.
Digital text is moveable.
Digital text is above all…hyper.
Digital hypertext is above all…
hypertext is above all…
hypertext can link
hypertext can link
here
here
or here…
virtually anywhere
anywhere virtually
anywhere virtual
The WayBack Machine
http://yahoo.com
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Oct 17, 1996
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Most early websites were written in HTML
HTML
HTML was designed to define the structure of a web document.
p is a structural element referring to “paragraph”
LI
LI is also a structural element referring to “List Item”
As HTML expanded, more elements were added.
Including stylistic elements like B for bold and I for italics
Suck elements defined how content would be formatted.
In other words, form and content became inseparable in HTML
Digital Text can do better.
Form and content can be separated.
http://www.cnn.com
RSS XML
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XML was designed to do just that.
http://www.cnn.com/?eref=rss_topstories
same withCNN.com
and
and virtually all other elements in this document.
They describe the content, not the form.
So the data can be exported,
free of formatting constraints.
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