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[Roger Clarke]

At 1:43 -0300 21/2/09, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>>  Remember the days when hypertext was thought as a learning tool, so
>>  everyone did an extra effort of
>>  linking words to actual word meanings and sites?

Unless you create or install an auto-linker to a site like Wikipedia, 
it's a remarkable amount of work to actually do it.

One of the few papers I did reasonably meticulously (using mainly 
FOLDOC, because it was pre-Wikipedia) was this one:

Clarke R. (2001)  'Paradise Gained, Paradise Re-lost: How the 
Internet is being Changed from a Means of Liberation to a Tool of 
Authoritarianism'  Mots Pluriels 18 (August 2001), Special Issue on 
'The Net: New Apprentices and Old Masters', at 
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1801rc.html, Preprint at 
http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/PGPR01.html

[They should have called the Issue 'New Masters and Old Apprentices'!]

The reasons I put in the effort were that:
(a) it was requested for a humanities journal (and many readers
     seemed likely to need, or want, the help) and
(b) it was an eJournal, and being an early example and in the
     humanities, I wanted to support their endeavours


The other use I make of the idea is when I (once per annum) teach a 
bunch of UniHK Masters students the concept of hotlinks (in about 2 
minutes).

I have a slide that explains what a hopelessly degraded kind of 
hyperlink a hotlink is, and why that was and remains one of the best 
features of the Web - it made it simple enough that (a) it worked, 
and (b) people thought they understood it;  but also one of the Web's 
weak-points.

(Then I talk about a hotlink being monotonic, uni-directional and 
supporting only one link-type;  and their eyes glaze, and they want 
to be treated like children and just told about the Web ...).


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At 1:43 -0300 21/2/09, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  <On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Antony Barry
>>  <tony at tony-barry.emu.id.au> wrote:
>>>  This takes me back - <http://mit.edu/~mkgray/project/comprehensive/
>>>  lycos.html.gz>. A few of them are still going. Anybody on link
>>>  recognise their early handiwork?
>>>
>>>  Tony
>>
>>  Remember the days when hypertext was thought as a learning tool, so
>>  everyone did an extra effort of
>>  linking words to actual word meanings and sites?
>>
>>  For instance, do you remember when in Web articles one would say
>>
>>  "It allows for the use of networked laser printers like the popular <A
>> 
>>HREF="http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=120&prodSeriesId=84028&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=84028&objectID=bpl12260">HP
>>  Laserjet</A>, shared on a <A
>>  HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_network">Home Network</A>
>>  using the <A HREF="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBIOS">Netbios</A>
>>  protcol
>>
>>  Of course, it was also abused at the time (like the infamous <BLINK>
>>  tag, but nowadays such informative linking is mostly gone, you can
>>  read articles that are several "web" pages long and there's not a
>>  single link in sight.
>
>Sorry I forgot the punch line...
>
>...please give me back my Netscape Navigator 3.0
>
>(insert violin music)
>;-)
>
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