(2018-02-09) Ohno Guidelines For Future Hypertext Systems

John Ohno: Guidelines for future hypertext systems. The web is merely the most popular of hundreds of earlier systems, most of which were technically superior.

The web will not be the last hypertext system

The situations that made a web-like system easier to design and build than a Xanadu-style system are, for the most part, gone.

As someone who has worked on hypertext systems (both independently and under the aegis of Project Xanadu), and as a part of a community around the design and implementation of post-web hypertext systems, I would like to provide some guidelines for the structure of future hypertext systems...