Internet Quote by Mark Bernstein

“Even though the World Wide Web has made hypertext commonplace, indeed ubiquitous, research continues to show that people who read linear text comprehend more,…

— Nicholas Carr

“Literature is the original Internet – every footnote, every citation, every allusion is essentially a hyperlink to another text, to another mind.”

— Maria Popova

The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.

— Thomas Watson, Jr

“HTML originated from a prototype of a language created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1992. Berners-Lee felt that there was a possibility of linking documents…

— Aravind Shenoy

What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links,…

— Robert Cailliau

The Web as we've known it for a long time has been pages linking and pointing to other pages.

— Mike McCue

Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will…

— Mark Bernstein

So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat…

— Ted Nelson

Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.

— Tim Berners-Lee

The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.

— Ted Nelson

Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of hypertext is…

— Donald A. Norman

“A 1989 study showed that readers of hypertext often ended up clicking distractedly “through pages instead of reading them carefully.”

— Nicholas Carr