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Spend some time exploring
the Distributed Documents links. You will find links to:
- a digital version
of Vannevar Bushs original July, 1945 Atlantic Monthly article
located on a computer at Simon Fraser University in British Colombia,
Canada
- a June, 1995 article
on Ted Nelsons Xanadu project located at the Wired magazine website
in San Francisco, CA
- an article discussing
"The Wonders of Hypertext" from the PBS EdWeb websites located
in California, North Carolina or Hong Kong
- A May, 1996 article
titled "Seek and Ye Shall Find (Maybe)" also from Wired magazines
website in San Francisco, CA.
- A May, 1996 article
titled "Navigating the Galaxies" from the Atlantic Monthly
website in Boston, MA
It will become obvious
as you explore these articles that you are seeing Bush and Nelsons
dreams of distributed documents in action. The websites exist in remote
locations somewhere out there on the Web. The hypertext links on the course
website (which is actually being served off a computer in Southern Florida)
initiate a hypertext transfer protocol (http://
) that bring the
text and image files directly to your computer where your web browser
converts the digital information back into a readable format.
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