History of Hypertext

On July 2, 2013, I began reading a used book that I bought five to eight years ago. The book is titled "HyperText and HyperMedia" by Jakob Nielsen of useit.com fame. The book, however, was published in 1990. The book discusses hypertext history and applications up to 1990 with some future predictions or wishes. Pre-Web.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex
Memory Extender

http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/Secondary/Bushframe.html

http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html

http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/EngelbartPapers/LetterToVBush.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Interactive_Encyclopedia_System

http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/hyperties/

HCIL Demo - HyperTIES Authoring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhmU2B79EDU

HCIL Demo - HyperTIES Browsing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZi4gUjaGAM

http://www.donhopkins.com/home/ties/LookBackAtHyperTIES.html

Designing to Facilitate Browsing: A Look Back at the Hyperties Workstation Browser
http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/102

http://www.donhopkins.com/home/ties/LookBackAtHyperTIES.html

HyperTIES Hypermedia Browser and Emacs Authoring Tool for NeWS
http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/101

AJAX is old NeWS, Laszlo is non-toxic AJAX
http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/64

http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoteCards
NoteCards was a hypertext personal knowledge basesystem developed at Xerox PARC

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/hypertext-history

http://www.flickr.com/photos/believekevin/6490702155

http://www.xanadu.com.au

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson
Nelson founded Project Xanadu in 1960 with the goal of creating a computer network with a simple user interface. The effort is documented in his 1974 book Computer Lib / Dream Machines and the 1981 Literary Machines. Much of his adult life has been devoted to working on Xanadu and advocating it.

http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/LiteraryMachines.html

http://hyperland.com - Ted Nelson
The needless death of Aaron Swartz in January 2013 has been hard on everyone. I like to remember him at the age or 14, when he wanted a picture of Doug Engelbart and me. We put him in the middle. He was already a full-fledged delegate to whatever the conference was.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMS_(hypertext)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZOG_(hypertext)

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/trip-report-hypertext-87

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin#Pioneering_the_information_appliance

[Raskin] was surprised to see articles on hypertext that start out assuming the use of a mouse since his tests during the design of the Canon Cat indicates that keyboard-based interaction is faster. This computer was demoed at the workshop: It is a small system which is mainly intended to perform one task (wordprocessing): It is an "Information Appliance" [the name of Raskin's company].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guide_(hypertext)

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/517341/douglas-engelbarts-unfinished-revolution/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyLifeBits
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bell
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/mylifebits/default.aspx

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