Article Published In Vol.5 (Nov-Dec-2017)

An Evaluation of the World Wide Web Compared to Other Hypermedia systems: Hyper-G and Microcosm

Author : Fahad Sulaiman Altuwaijri

This paper presents an evaluation of the aspects that have made the World Wide Web the most popular distributed hypermedia system. It describes and compares the Web with its contemporaries, Hyper-G and Microcosm. Furthermore, this paper presents a brief history of the hypertext, as well as the architecture of the aforementioned systems and, the factors that drive the web to become a more successful information system than Hyper-G and Microcosm were also explained. Moreover, it proposes the recent development of the Web.

Keywords: The Web, Hyper-G, Microcosm, Open Hypermedia