The Flusser Hypertext Prototype 2 was originally produced in 1992 by the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) of today’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The Hypertext Protoype 2 is a futuristic model of a new “multimedia study system” based on the lecture Schreiben fürs Publizieren by Vilém Flusser held on the 2 March 1989 on invitation of ITAS. The original Hypertext Prototype 2 was given to the _Vilém_Flusser_Archive in 2007. The Flusser Hypertext has languished for almost 20 years, trapped in its original Apple Performa 630 chassis, until it was retrieved and rehabilitated in 2010 by the _Vilém_Flusser_Archiv under Claudia Becker.
The Flusser Hypertext at transmediale.11 is a clone of the Hypertext Prototype 2 and is running on an Apple Macintosh System of the time when the Hypertext was produced. The _Vilém_Flusser_Archive is currently working on a weborientated porting.