In January 2016, Mandy Brown wrote a fascinating pair of articles about the nature of hypertext. The first essay explores the text part of hypertext, asking whether or not hypertext is (or ought only to be) text. The second article takes on the hyper part, extolling the virtues of getting lost in that act those of us old enough to remember the days before social media used to call “surfing the web.” Here’s a little taste: