Killing the Hyperlink, Killing the Web: The Shift from Library-Internet to Television-Internet

The Web, as envisaged by its inventors, was founded on the idea of hyperlinks. Derived from the notion of hypertext in literary theory, a hyperlink is a relation rather than an object. It is a system of connections that connects distant pieces of text, ...

Inspired by patterns of behavior generated in social networks, a prototype of a new object was designed and developed for the World Wide Web-the stigmergic hyperlink or "stigh". In a system of stighs, like a Web page, the objects that users do use grow "...

The emergence and success of web platforms nurtured a trend within social studies: "Hyperlink is dead!". Capturing their users into mobile applications and specialised web interface to propose them a specific user experience (and business model), the ...