So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.
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Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application.Ted Nelson
The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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I want to create, however, a new breed, a new kind of computer system that is much simpler that allows kids to programme once again.
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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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I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
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So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
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