{"id":2187,"date":"2010-10-29T11:22:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T15:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2010-10-29T11:30:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T15:30:04","slug":"blast-from-the-past-hytext","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2010\/blast-from-the-past-hytext","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the Past &#8211; Hytext"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/hypertext-before-the-world-wide-web\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2188\" title=\"hytext-screen\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/hytext-screen.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/hytext-screen.gif 241w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/hytext-screen-115x150.gif 115w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/hytext-screen-192x250.gif 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 85vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hypertext before the World Wide Web?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I was a resident back in <strong>1988<\/strong>, I wrote a hypertext authoring system for MS-DOS called <a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/hypertext-before-the-world-wide-web\/\">HYTEXT<\/a>. That was a time of <strong>80 x 24 line monochrome displays<\/strong> and command line interfaces. I knew nothing about networks at the time, but I did create a\u00a0<strong>mark-up language<\/strong> that anticipates HTML in many ways. I recently came across a paper copy of my original documentation and thought it would be a good idea to reproduce a few pages here for posterity. The original program and documentation are on 5.25 inch floppy discs that I have no way to read. But\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cd.textfiles.com\/pcsig08\/1201_300\/DISK1234\/HYTDOC.HTX\" target=\"_blank\">I googled it and found my 22 year old file online!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypertext before the World Wide Web? When I was a resident back in 1988, I wrote a hypertext authoring system for MS-DOS called HYTEXT. That was a time of 80 x 24 line monochrome displays and command line interfaces. I knew nothing about networks at the time, but I did create a\u00a0mark-up language that anticipates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2010\/blast-from-the-past-hytext\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blast from the Past &#8211; Hytext&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}