How the hyperlink changed everything | Small Thing Big Idea, a TED series

The hyperlink is the LEGO block of the internet. Here's the bizarre history of how it came to be, as told by user experience master Margaret Gould Stewart.

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24 Comments on How the hyperlink changed everything | Small Thing Big Idea, a TED series

    • Forget the editing, don’t leave your camera on autofocus if you’re going to be bobbing your head around. So actually, the editing needs to try harder.

  1. Wow.. Vannevar Bush looks exactly like Jacob Rees Mogg, maybe that explains why Rees Mogg sounds like he just stepped out of a time loop from the 50s.

  2. The hyperlink made study hours in school so much more fun. We played the Wikipedia game all the time because we had nothing to study or work on and didn’t want to get assigned extra work so it looked like we where researching but we where just playing around..

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