Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

[Georges Malamoud]

Yes you are right, this is not a minor aside. 
Hypertext has been at the core of many systems, and a reason why I still believe in Hypercard-like solutions.
Even OuLiPo creators used hypertext in the sixties. 
What about the creation, now of a OuLinPo (Ouvroir de l’Internet potentiel) around the Guide, to celebrate the fact that any service available thanks to the Internet could be played with, using constraints, classifications, games and more ?
As an example, I once (in 1994) chose a poem from Queneau (one among 10^14) where each word was a link to a site. Of course, the web changes quickly and most of the links are dead now. Same thing with an image. Old version is here : https://web.archive.org/web/20030806223730/http://perso.cybercable.fr/malamoud/ (if you like oldies)
Seriously, yes, I am interested to participate in conversations about your project ;)
Georges

> Le 15 juil. 2026 à 16:47, Keith Martin <thatkeith at mac.com> a écrit :
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> One minor aside: Hypertext is far, FAR older than the Web. Ted Nelson coined the terms ‘hypertext' and ‘hypermedia' in 1963, presented the concept formally in 1965, and made the first working hypertext system (called “Hypertext Editing System”) in 1967. Interestingly, according to Ted Nelson it was also the first system to feature a back or undo button. He then went on to develop the famously-never-finished Project Xanadu which took his ideas much further. Apple’s HyperCard and Ted Nelson’s Project Xanadu both directly influenced Berners-Lee’s development of the Web.
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> But it was Vannevar Bush in his “As We May Think” essay from 1945 (!) who first presented the concept of linking information associatively rather than linearly. That’s really the true original ancestor of Hypertext.
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> Keith
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>> On 15 Jul 2026, at 10:28, Georges Malamoud via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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>> Hypertext is as old as the web but still a powerful way of digging into the layers of a world like H2G2.
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