Import data into the system, or use system specific editors. Have a nice user experience with fast link traversals, and no broken links.Ĭontent providers using the monolithic hypertext systems are required to Have an architecture which tightly controls the data, hypertext structure,Īnd user interface of the system. Monolithic hypertext systems, motivated by a desire to keep their informationīase internally consistent, and to provide a consistent user interface, Of monolithic hypertext systems such as Intermedia, KMS, HyperCard, and StorySpace Worked directly on Xanadu, while others performed their own interpretationsĪnd implementations, leading directly and indirectly to the development The compromises and limitations of existing computing technology. To arms and labored to bridge the gap between the Nelson's ideals, and Utopian rhetoric to describe a global docuverse of hyperlinked information Ted Nelson intuitively understood the network effects of hypertext, using Monolithic Hypertext Systems, Control Choices and Network Effects To different incentive structures for readers and content providers andĢ. Monolithic hypertext systems, open hypermedia systems, and the Web, lead This paper examines how these core differences in control assumptions between The browser, but the data and hypermedia structure are uncontrolled. With the Web, the user interface is controlled via Hypermedia structure, and sometimes the data, but relinquish control over Hypermedia structure, and data, while open hypermedia systems control the Monolithic hypertext systems control the user interface, Goals, each class of hypermedia system made different control decisions Than could be addressed by the monolithic systems. Open hypermedia systems and the Web wentįurther, wanting to provide hypermedia functionality in more open contexts Such is the case with the World Wide Webįor monolithic hypertext systems, the goal was to create a system that System as competing systems are unable to generate sufficient network effects This feedback cycle causes users to be locked-in to the hypertext Readers, readers incentivize content, and so on. As more readers use the system,Ĭontent providers have incentive to add more content. Readers are lured to the system to take advantage of the greater utility Simple feedback loops lead to increases in readers and content providers. System, it is likely more people will access the content generated by a Is related to the number of people who read it. For the content provider, the utility of each document in the system The utility of documents in the system is greater than those outside the Of retrieving the associated information. Two documents increases the usefulness of both documents by makingĪ relationship between the documents explicit, and reducing the burden From the perspective of a reader, a hypertext link between Utility can be viewed from the perspective of readers, and of data, orĬontent providers. Network effects in hypertext systems have many causes. But when a million, or aīillion people have telephones, the utility of a single telephone is immense. Goods where the utility of the good does not depend on the number of other The utility of the hypertext system depends on the number of users andĪmount of data in the system. Hypertext systems exhibit network effects, where Monolithic hypermedia systems, open hypermedia system, and the Web, lead This paper examines how the core differences in control assumptions between HTTP standards, the Web created a feedback cycle of positive network effects. Through these control choices, and the URL, HTML, and Is controlled via the browser, but the data and hypermedia structure are The World Wide Web was designed to be a single point of entry into aĭistributed, multi-platform information space, and as a direct consequenceĬhose different control tradeoffs. More applications, hence more content, in the hypermedia web. Open hypermedia systems increase hypermedia network effects by including Systems control the hypermedia structure, and sometimes the data, but relinquishĬontrol over the user interface. A reaction against monolithic hypermedia systems whichĬontrol the user interface, data, and hypermedia structure, open hypermedia Services to the multiple applications populating a typical user's computingĮnvironment. of Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine key element of open hypermedia systems is the provision of hypermedia Control Choices and Network Effects in Hypertext SystemsĬontrol Choices and Network Effects in Hypertext Systems E.
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