Please note that not all of the readings listed below have been assigned, and you are not required to have read all of them. Some, like "Special Characters in HTML" are useful reference texts listed so you can find them easily. Others explore design issues in more detail and are listed with the hope that you will be interested in learning more about a topic.

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Bolter Related

"As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush
Published in The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945. From the Editor: "As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge. For years inventions have extended man's physical powers rather than the powers of his mind. Trip hammers that multiply the fists, microscopes that sharpen the eye, and engines of destruction and detection are new results, but not the end results, of modern science. Now, says Dr. Bush, instruments are at hand which, if properly developed, will give man access to and command over the inherited knowledge of the ages. The perfection of these pacific instruments should be the first objective of our scientists as they emerge from their war work. Like Emerson's famous address of 1837 on 'The American Scholar,' this paper by Dr. Bush calls for a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge."
Doulas Englebart Introduces Hypertext and the Mouse
"On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The public presentation was a session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1,000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse. But the mouse was only one of many innovations demonstrated that day, including hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking, as well as shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface."
"You Say You Want a Revolution? Hypertext and the Laws of Media" by Stuart Moulthrop
Published in the journal Postmodern Culture, Volume 1, Number 3, 1991.
"The World Wide Web: Past, Present and Future" by Tim Berners-Lee
Published August 1996. Abstract: "The World Wide Web was designed originally as an interactive world of shared information through which people could communicate with each other and with machines. Since its inception in 1989 it has grown initially as a medium for the broadcast of read-only material from heavily loaded corporate servers to the mass of Internet connected consumers. Recent commercial interest its use within the organization under the "Intranet" buzzword takes it into the domain of smaller, closed, groups, in which greater trust allows more interaction. In the future we look toward the web becoming a tool for even smaller groups, families, and personal information systems. Other interesting developments would be the increasingly interactive nature of the interface to the user, and the increasing use of machine-readable information with defined semantics allowing more advanced machine processing of global information, including machine-readable signed assertions."

Sante Related

Alexander Gartner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War
From the Cornell University Library web site: "Thirty of the one hundred images that comprise Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War have been selected for digitization, along with the title page. The images are offered alongside their original captions. Photographs are organized into seven thematic categories. Use the navigation bar at left to select a theme (in gray letters) to explore."
The Dalton Gang
Bodies of the Bogs
"Over the past centuries, remains of many hundreds of people--men, women, and children--have come to light during peat cutting activities in northwestern Europe, especially in Ireland, Great Britain, the Netherlands, northern Germany, and Denmark. These are the "bog bodies." The individual bog bodies show a great degree of variation in their state of preservation, from skeletons, to well-preserved complete bodies, to isolated heads and limbs. They range in date from 8000 B.C. to the early medieval period. Most date from the centuries around the beginning of our era. We do not know exactly how many bog bodies have been found--many have disappeared since their discovery."