“Hypertext” by Tim Berners-Lee received the Golden Nica in the Interactive Art category of the Prix Ars Electronica 1995.
Hypertext is a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will. Potentially, Hypertext provides a single user-interface to many large classes of stored information such as reports, notes, data-bases, computer documentation and on-line systems help.
About Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee (GB) is a graduate of Oxford University. With a background of system design in real-time communications and text processing software development, in 1989 he created the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global…
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.