Paste · Do this to my work · it connects
Element 41
Put in something that stays live from elsewhere.
linked object · iframe · transclusion
First known
Opened
1984Lotus Jazz's 'hot view': put a spreadsheet's figures in a report, change a figure, and the report changes too. Lotus, shown at COMDEX.
See also: Windows 2.0 DDE 'paste link' (1987), then OLE 1.0 (1990) and System 7 Publish and Subscribe (1991).
“This innovation allows a user to transfer information from, for instance, a spreadsheet to a report; change a figure in the spreadsheet; and have that change reflected immediately in the report.”
Jazz was announced in November 1984 and shipped for the Macintosh in 1985, so the live link came about three years before DDE. Transclusion stays Nelson's word for the idea.
Someone opened the dated document itself. The source.
- ReadingValue
Specimen № 41 — operate freely
Embed Priya’s total in your note, then watch her sheet. Try to change the number.
Fig. 41 — Embed
000 readings · idle
Down the Paste column
Read down and Paste gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.
Bodies
The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Embed takes.
- linked object
- iframe
- transclusion