The point has been not to simplify the world of ideas and connection, or force others to simplify (as today's software and hypermedia do); the point has been to represent the world of ideas correctly and clearly, which is much harder-- replacing not just paper media, but conventional computer files and hierarchy, with finer-grained and wholly different families of structure.

Current front end dataset is a comparison of Thomas Jefferson's June 28, 1776 Rough Draft for the Declaration of Independence and the final version of the Declaration of Independence dated July 4, 1776.

Snippet links are a kind of hypertext, and embedded snippet links are a kind of transclusion. Originally proposed by Ted Nelson as part of his Xanadu system, transclusions present part of one document within another, while maintaining bi-directional links for navigation and orientatio

Ted Nelson launches Project Xanadu, and he said, "Well, what if it wasn't just limited to the things that I have? What if I could connect ideas across a larger body of work?"

Link Type. Is the citation being referred to because the author agrees or disagrees with it?

Immutable. The document cannot change.

High Resolution Addressable. At different levels of granularity,

zippered lists

Links must be stored in HTML files