The World Wide Web (WWW) is a much-reduced form of Hypertext, a term coined by Theodor H. Nelson in the 1960s, which he defined as "non-sequential [multi-linear??] writing — text that branches and allows choices to the reader, best read at an interactive screen. . . . this is a series of text chunks connected by links which offer the reader different pathways.

This proposition for what was to become a radically new information technology followed and built upon previous ones by Paul Otlet, Vannevar Bush, Douglas Englebart, Andries van Dam, and others.

WWW (or Web 1.0) is the form of hypertext most of us know and use, but there are other forms than its crude form of Nelsonian link-and-node hypertext.

1. Read/Write [Intermedia, Microcosm, Blogs, Wikis] vs. Read-only (presentation or broadcast mode [WWW])

2. Vannevar Bush's Memex: Collections of Paths and Links, Writing as Network

4. Nelson's own Stretchtext

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