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Article: Hypermedia.
- Article from:
- Popular Science
- Article date:
- May 1, 1989
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Hypermedia First came hypertext--computer documents linked together in an associative fashion, like human thoughts. Now hyper-activity has spread to other media. Sounds and pictures are being spun into the information web to create hypermedia--interactive programs that wed education and entertainment.
It was August 1945. "Consider a future device," wrote Dr. Vannevar Bush, director of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development, "in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory."
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