h1. 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":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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://worrydream.com/refs/Vannevar%20Bush%20Symposium%20-%20Closing%20Panel.html

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":http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/138964/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":http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/blogpost/461/30Jul2013/Computer-industry-inventor-and-thinker-Douglas-Engelbart-dies---July-2013 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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