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Hypermedia on the Web: A Definition

Hypermedia on the Web: A Definition

The value of "Connection-First" designs

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Mike Amundsen
Oct 26, 2023
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Below is an excerpt from my book "RESTful Web API Patterns and Practices Cookbook" from O'Reilly Media

Ted Nelson is credited with coining the terms hypertext and hypermedia as early as the 1950s. He used these terms in his 1965 ACM paper “Complex Information Processing: A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing and the Indeterminate”. In its initia…

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