Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext

By Belinda Barnet

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783083441
• ISBN13: 9781783083442
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"