A talk given at the STM Innovations seminar in December 2006. The talk provides a fleeting history of hypertext and suggests that many recent innovations in web technology were pre-dated by early hypertext research, and hence this proves to be fertile territory for looking for new directions. The presentation also suggests how publishers can be "Good hypertext publishers" and promotes the idea of "deep web integration".

1. The Connection Machine Leigh Dodds, Ingenta STM Innovations, Dec 2006

2. A Fleeting History of Hypertext

3. The Bookwheel Le diverse et artifiose machine Agostino Ramelli, 1588

5. [B]y " hypertext " I mean non-sequential writing -- text that branches and allows choices to the reader, best read at an interactive screen -- Ted Nelson, Literary Machines

6. The Web as an Hypertext Application

7. Links Didn't Break

9. http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature03917

13. Electronic Graffiti Annotating & Commenting

22. Bi-Directional Linking a.k.a “Who is linking to this page?”

23. link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext

27. Upgrading Your Browser = Upgrading The Web

28. Upgrading Your Browser = Upgrading The Web Greasemonkey

29. Open Data Enables New Connections

31. The Babel Problem

32. The Silo Problem

34. Link Typing

36. Being a Good Hypertext Publisher

38. Microformats Embedding Metadata for Machines into Pages for Humans