(2018-02-09) Ohno Guidelines For Future Hypertext Systems

John Ohno: Guidelines for future hypertext systems. The world-wide-web is merely the most popular of hundreds of earlier systems, most of which were technically superior.

The web will not be the last hypertext system

The situations that made a web-like system easier to design and build than a Xanadu-style system are, for the most part, gone.

As someone who has worked on hypertext systems (both independently and under the aegis of Project Xanadu), and as a part of a community around the design and implementation of post-web hypertext systems, I would like to provide some guidelines for the structure of future hypertext systems...