Articles

Hypertext '93

November 1993

This was written as a recap of the Fifth ACM Conference on Hypertext 1993, where I convened an informal Web Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) meeting. Back then, anybody who was anybody on the Web went to the ACM Hypertext conferences. It was here that many of them met for the first time.

It's encouraging to think that this markup can still be viewed in browsers today. Other than changing the background color to simulate a 1993 browser background color (it was all gray back then), the HTML has not been touched since 1993. Note some email address and URLs are now obsolete.

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The Beginning of Hypergrunge

November 1993

This article was written on the fly in a hotel lobby for The Black Mark #2, "the underground newsletter of Hypertext '93". The Black Mark originated at this conference and was edited by Kathryn Cramer (Interview).

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The World is Talking to Itself -
Why Not Join in the Conversation?

August 1993

This article was written as an appendix to the first Guide to Cyberspace and asked what Hawaii could do to become a more high-tech state.

One of the motives for writing this article was the lack of Internet access in Hawaii - being an art student at UH at the time, UNIX accounts and network access was only reserved for engineering students, which I found ludicrous. Back then, Hawaii had no Internet Service Providers, with the only service provider being basically the University of Hawaii. And no state had a Web presence then.

This article is included here for historical purposes.

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