Multimedia Origins, Internet Futures.
Second Edition
'Understanding Hypermedia 2.000' is essential for anyone involved in the design, media and communication industries. The explosive growth of the hypermedia-based World Wide Web from a few thousand users in the early 90s to millions today demonstrates that we are dealing with a new kind of communications medium that has to be taken very seriously.
This is a completely revised and extended version of the earlier 'Understanding Hypermedia' (1993) which firmly established itself in the design and media community as a definitive, wide-ranging and non-technical introduction to the subject. This lavishly illustrated new edition brings the story of hypermedia up to date and discusses how the medium will develop, looking towards the new millennium. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to get a clear picture of the new opportunities available.
As well as an extensive glossary of technical terms and a comprehensive bibliography, this new edition includes a wide range of World Wide Web addresses (URLs) enabling readers to use the medium and explore further the issues and ideas raised in the book. Drawing on numerous examples from CD-Roms to Web sites, the authors show how the medium is actually being used to educate, sell to, entertain, inform, stimulate and amuse users all over the world.
