Hyperland | |
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Genre | Technology |
Written by | Douglas Adams |
Presented by | Douglas Adams Tom Baker |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 1 |
Production | |
Producer | Max Whitby |
Running time | 50 minutes |
Production company | BBC |
Original release | |
Network | BBC Two |
Release | 1990 |
Hyperland is a 50-minute long documentary movie about hypertext and surrounding technologies. It was written by Douglas Adams and produced and directed by Max Whitby.[1] It ran on BBC Two in 1990. It stars Douglas Adams as a computer user and Tom Baker as a personification of a software agent.
In the show Adams has a dream where he is browsing through various media. While Adams is browsing, many people and projects related to the general theme of hypertext and multimedia are presented:
The dream (and the documentary) ends with a vision of how information might be accessed in 2005. Hyperland does describe a number of features of the modern web. This is especially noteworthy because it predates the public release of the first Web browser by about a year.