My morning coffee wants to discuss the history of writing forms. From cuneiform on wet clay to markdown (as a cute analog of digital words).
• Clay tablets covered in silt or lava ash or risen sea levels took thousands of years to connect with a reader, if ever.
• Markdown gets sent across the ether instantly and it still may or may not find a reader.
The time between now and Hypertext’s invention is longer than the time between it and the adoption of cuneiform on clay.
@Luke From the earliest invention of the concept of Hypertext to now is about 90 years.
From the known widespread use of Cuneiform on clay tablets to the invention of Hypertext is at least 5200 years, possibly much longer to earliest invention.
You aren't even within two orders of magnitude.
Luke Dorny 
Caleb Maclennan