And he said now is the time to start thinking about what would be the documents
of the future. So I said [...] what can you do on the screen that you can't do
on paper? And I was a writer, I'd done a great deal of writing and I believe
some rather original magazine layout and stuff, and so, I was very open to new
ways of doing this. I didn't like the restrictions of paper.
As I would abstract it now, [...] we can have parallel connections between
visible documents, so [...] you can have two pages with a connection saying this
sentence is connected to that paragraph and see it as a visible strap or bridge,
and [...] you can't do that yet. So, that was one of my hypertext concepts, and
the other hypertext concept was being able to click on something and jump to it,
so as the hypertext concept developed and deteriorated over the years [...] only
the jump link, became popular in the hypertext systems in 60s and the 70s.