1. Sometime in the late 1980s, an enigmatic work of short fiction began circulating through a small subculture of writers and technologists. Entitled “Afternoon, a Story” and written by a ...

Much like a street address, a URL uniquely identifies every Web page. The "http" portion of the URL, which stands for "hypertext transfer protocol," provides the base for communication between your ...

What happened to hypertext fiction? If you were alive and literate in the 1990s, you may remember the hype with which hypertext was touted as the next big thing: a medium that had the potential to ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

I’ve been on the road a lot this summer teaching newsrooms about online writing. It’s challenging, exciting and fun; I get paid to learn, just the way I did as a reporter. But I’ve encountered a ...

Byron Reese: Well, we are coming upon the 50th anniversary of your presentation of your paper “A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing and the Indeterminate” at the Association for Computing ...

A document publishing and browsing system widely used on the Internet is called "World Wide Web(Web) ", this is called" embedding position information of another document at an arbitrary place in the ...

FOR a thoroughly modern word, hypertext has surprisingly ancient antecedents. Contrary to what you might think, it’s not exclusively a device of the World Wide Web, but has been around in one form or ...

The coding language used to create Hypertext documents which are used on the world wide web. This language is the syntax that tells your browser how to view the data that is by a website. HTML ...

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is a text-based approach to describing how content contained within an HTML file is structured. This markup tells a web browser how to display text, images and other ...