Stop Writing HTML

and Start Telling Stories

People tell stories. We hunt animals, and rip substanence from the soil, use tools and challenge the seas, kill our friends and love our enemies, we do all of that, but mostly, we tell stories about having done those things, or thinking about how to do them.

 

We tell stories to our friends about all we plan to do, and we tell stories to our enemies about what we'll do to them, and we tell stories to ourselves at night when we dream.

It is what we do, it is how our brains work, it is how we are wired.

The word Hypertext was coined by Ted Nelson in the 1960's to describe 'non sequential' writing.

Hypertext is one tool to help us tell our stories. I like hypertext. I like it a lot. I think that associative hypertext systems are one of the better ways to present, and annotate, the stories that we tell, the stories that we live.

But...
Hypertext is 'just another tool' to allow us to tell our stories. It is the story that pulls us in, the story that grabs us by the throat and won't let us go, the story that connects us, in our small lonesome heads, with a world that transcends space, and time.