Brilliant Quote by Thomas Watson, Jr

“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

I love the Wikipedia link chain because it has led me into some strange articles. Wikipedia is one of my favorites.

— Veronica Roth

Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.

— Mark Bernstein

The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.

— Ted Nelson

While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy theories proliferate, the net is really much more culpable for the way…

— Douglas Rushkoff

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

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

— Tim Berners-Lee

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

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

— Mike McCue

“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

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

— Nicholas Carr

“URLs don’t even need to make sense to human eyes. But we humans prefer nice-looking URLs, like”

— Leonard Richardson