@mprove Yes, thanks! But any documented link. Ian Ritchie (ex-OWL) was the source for the OWL reference but I can’t validate it any further. Seems a notable hole in the hypertext story. I wonder how many realised MS WinHelp → MS HTML Help was only a change of hypertext implementation.
Hypertext folks. What was hypertext basis for MS Windows Help? RTF WinHelp from 1990—not later ‘96+ HTML Help. Sure many folk who’d never heard of hypertext used WinHelp: so, missing hypertext history. I recall OWL mentioned (Office Workstations Limited—i.e. Guide). Anyone?
Our new Volume on The Authoring Problem in Interactive Digital Narratives is now available from Springer, some great contributions from the leading researchers in the field (big thanks to my fellow editors @drchargood, @lexaaylexaay and Uli Spierling): https://t.co/cPB7GEl3sV
@hoosfoos Does GPT think? Surely it’s just a good mimic of style. It has no semantic understanding of what it is writing other than probabilities of co-occurance of words/phrases. I too like SH and PKM, but to assist thinking and structure not drive it. Much PKM is ‘fill the process’.
@LingaWine Is this floppy the actual Guide app software? If so, suspect Hypertext folk might be interested. Guide running on DOS in a virtual machine is possible and would be interesting for Hypertext researchers and students. Web is only part of the hypertext story. @clausatz
Throwing old Tapes , old papers, old CDs, old floppies. But this one is difficult. In 1990 I had a #Rockefeller grant to develop a pre #html#hypertext information system
"The earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching."
- Assyrian tablet, c. 2800 BC