TY - INPR N1 - © 2025 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. TI - The early ACM Hypertext Conference?s role in developing pre-Web reading on-screen EP - 16 SP - 1 AV - public Y1 - 2025/03/09/ JF - New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia KW - Hypertext KW - electronic publishing KW - digital publishing KW - history of computing KW - HyperTIES KW - Storyspace KW - ACM Hypertext conference series A1 - Rowberry, Simon ID - discovery10205886 N2 - The first three iterations of the ACM Hypertext conference were highly popular, drawing a diverse audience of researchers and practitioners experimenting with hypertext systems before the arrival of the World Wide Web. While the rise of the Web has often been seen as a disruptive event in the history of hypertext, in this paper I argue that if we focus on the intersection between digital publishing and hypertext, there are stronger continuities. Through archival research into early participants of the Hypertext conferences including Ben Shneiderman and Michael Joyce, I recover some of these lost connections. SN - 1361-4568 UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/13614568.2025.2477123 PB - Informa UK Limited ER -