sgt_slaughtermelon is offering a series of uniques as a prelude to a conceptual experience about hypertext, hypermedia, and all the ways we fly through our own headspace of music, art, and culture.
Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web represents the beginning of the end of HyperCard. HyperCard was meant to be a hypermedia creation and sharing tool, and with the advent of HTML it became clear that it was redundant. Would the web fulfill that promise of having interactive and linked content created by passionate intelligent people? Would the web be a tool for empowering people to share a large universe of documents with universal access?
I think the implication here is that it's not really over yet and it remains to be seen. The web, as it is, does not provide universal access. The web as it is right now seems to mostly funnel people to large corporate platforms where their contributions are not creative expressions of information and ideas but little comments or videos that mostly funnel the churn of advertising and "content" industries. Tim Berners-Lee isn't to blame for that, though. The dream is still alive - it just needs participants.
