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Spend some time exploring the Distributed Documents links. You will find links to:

  • a digital version of Vannevar Bush’s original July, 1945 Atlantic Monthly article located on a computer at Simon Fraser University in British Colombia, Canada
  • a June, 1995 article on Ted Nelson’s 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 magazine’s 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 Nelson’s 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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Fresno Pacific University  |  School of Professional Studies

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