So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
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What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.Ted Nelson
So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.
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The point is that you could structure this arbitrary information in any way. Well, given that, now we can write text that can go in all directions.
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Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
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The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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