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Hyperlinks as Break, Gap or Escape
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In 2001 the
death of hypertext and the triumph of multimedia
had been announced. Everyone seemed to agree on the
banality of hypertext and its foremost praised
element hyperlink. This was exactly the time when
hypertext had in fact just established itself among
the masses of electronic network users as a
communication standard and would have needed more
support on how to live with hypertext. In a lecture
in 2002 Beat Suter looked into what had been
established by the scholars so far and took a
closer look at what others didn't see anymore
– the "important locations in a text", the
topoi, the underlined passages, alas: the
hyperlinks.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2005/2/Suter.htm