Hypertext triumphant

• The Web is everywhere.

• Literary hypertext is flourishing.

• Hypertext is triumphant.

• But where are the hypertexts?

  Many Web pages are barely hypertextual
  
  Hypertext publishing often seems marginal or worse
  

We've come a long way….

…but why haven't we come farther?

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Where are the hypertexts?

The Web is our great triumph.

Millions of people read and write hypertexts for the Web. But much of the Web remains feebly or incidentally hypertextual.

Hypertext often seems an afterthought, a detail at the margins of contemporary life.