Iper testo: origine medievale?
Iper testo e San Tommaso: il frate domenicano vissuto nel XIII secolo, può esserne considerato a tutti gli effetti il “padrino”.
English version
St. Thomas, the Dominican friar lived in the thirteenth century, can be considered in all respects the “godfather” of hypertext.
Although the term hypertest, used to indicate that structured set of information, joined together by dynamic links that can be consulted on the computer with a simple mouse click, was coined by Theodor Holm “Ted” Nelson, a sociologist, philosopher and pioneer of information technology in 1965, in the US, it was actually from the aquinas that it all started.
In fact, if notebooks, PCs and Macs have permanently retired the typewriter, and today compose and break down texts, perform analysis and research, communicate through virtual messages is a daily reality, a large part of the merit is attributed to Father Roberto Busa, a recently deceased Jesuit; he was the forerunner of hypertext, the first motor of the Web, and curator of the monumental Index Thomisticus. In the immediate (second) post-war period Busa was engaged in a titanic work, analyzing the omni work of St. Thomas, consisting of 9 million words. He had painstakingly compiled and composed ten thousand cards, all of them dedicated to the inventory of the preposition “in” which he considered to be of great importance from the philosophical point of view. But he had “a wonderful idea” in mind: connecting expressions, phrases, quotations to each other for comparison with other available sources. And so he decided to move to the “Big Apple” … (continua)
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Traduzione in latinorun per gioco (by Google Translator)
S. Thomam, S. Dominici monachus qui fuit in sæculum XIII, potest considerari quantum ad omnia est patrinus Hypertexti.
Cum Hypertextum verbum, quod simul solebat, indicant structured notitia, copulata cum a computer est inventus ab dynamico nexus simplicio ictu mouse, cuditum fuit Fridericus Magnus Holm ‘Marcus’, Marcus sociologi Francici, et scientia philosophus praecurso US est actu in MCMLXV D. Thomas, qui relinquit totum.
In facto, si vestri comentarius, PC et Mac misisti in seducto actiones sunt currus certus scriptum est, et hodie componere atque dissolvi texta, praestare analysis et investigationis, communicate per contactum virtualem nuntii est cotidie re: multum enim fidei est ex Patre Roberto Busa, Societatis Iesu, qui nuper decessit; Fuit praecursor hypertextum, ad primam motor, et curator monumenta Index Thomisticus. Statim in futuro (secunda) Busae in bello versantur in opus ad Titanic, quod analyzavit Opera S. Thomam, ejus apud IX decies verba. Millia confecerat scelerisque metus et maxima cura et omnes ad inventarium praepositionem dicata «in» a quo magni habetur philosophiae parte. Sed in capite Mirum ideam coniungere inter eorum verba, Phrases: fontibus citandis habita ratione aliorum utibile. Et quod tunc placuit ire in “Big Apple” (Magnum Malum) …
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