Description Based on his best-selling HyperText and HpyerMedia, Jakob Nielsen takes hypertext a step further--to the Internet. Multimedia and Hypertext:
The Internet and Beyond explores new and developing applications in multimedia and hypertext as well as offering coverage of the use
of HTML (hypertext markup language) and the World Wide Web with interfaces such as Mosaic and Netscape.
Contents
Preface
A Multitude of Hypertext and Multimedia
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Defining Hypertext,
Hypermedia, and Multimedia
Narrower Definitions of Hypertext
Hypermedia: Multimedia Hypertext
Hypertext and
Regular Computer Applications
The Hype about Hypertext
Chapter 2: An Example of a Hypertext System
Chapter 3: The History of Hypertext
Memex (1945)
Augment/NLS (1962-1976)
Xanadu (1965)
Hypertext Editing System (1967) and FRESS (1968)
Aspen Movie Map (1978)
KMS (1983)
Hyperties (1983)
NoteCards (1985)
Symbolics Document Examiner (1985)
Intermedia (1985)
Guide (1986)
HyperCard
(1987)
Hypertext Grows Up
Chapter 4: Applications of Hypertext
Computer Applications
Business
Applications
Intellectual Applications
Educational Applications
Entertainment and Leisure Applications
Chapter 5: The Architecture of Hypertext Systems
Nodes
Links
Hypertext Engines
Open
Hypertext
Integrating Hypertext Ideas into Other Environments
Chapter 6: Hardware Support for Hypertext
Problems with the Computer Screen
Pointing Devices
Can Text-Only Computers Be Used for Hypertext
CD-ROM
as a Storage Device
Chapter 7: Hypertext in the Internet
Accessing Hypertext Through the Internet
The
World Wide Web and Mosaic
HTML
Hyper-G and Harmony
Half-Dead Hypertext and the Electronic Business Card
Chapter 8: Coping with Information Overload
Information Retrieval
Human Editing
Interest Voting
and Readwear
The n of 2n Approach
Chapter 9: Navigating Large Information Spaces
Overview Diagrams
Navigational Dimensions and Metaphors
Chapter 10: Hypertext Usability
Usability Parameters for Hypertext
Survey of Benchmark Research
Non-Benchmark Studies
The Larger Picture
Chapter 11: Multimedia
Authoring
Usability for Authors
Separate Interfaces for Writers
Cooperative Authoring
The Authority
of the Author
Chapter 12: Repurposing Existing Content
Conversion
The Manual of Medical therapeutics
Oxford English Dictionary
Chapter 13: The Future of Multimedia and Hypertext
What Happened to the Predictions
from my Earlier Book?
Short-Term Future: Three to Five Years
Medium-Term Future: Five to Ten Years
Long-Term
Future: Ten to Twenty Years
Hypermedia Publishing: Monopoly or Anarchy?
A Summary: Hypertext versus the Competition
Appendix: Annotated Bibilography
Surveys
Societies
Compendium
Conferences
Journals
and Magazines
Videotapes
Books about the Internet
Classics
Alphabetical Listing of Papers and Books
Far Out Stuff
Index
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