Digital garden etymology
In her article A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden, Maggie Appleton retrace the birth of the digital garden term in Mark Bernstein’s 1998 manifestos Hypertext Gardens. He expose his vision about how web navigation problems and structure’s limits can be solved by what he called Hypertext Gardening.
Gardens are farmland that delights the senses; parks are wilderness, tamed for our enjoyment. Large hypertexts and Web sites must often contain both parks and gardens.
– Mark Bernstein