Hypertext

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Ted Nelson

Coined by Ted Nelson as part of his imagining of "hypermedia". Traceable to Nelson's self-published works from the 1970s such as Computer Lib / Dream Machines.

http://www.w3.org/WhatIs.html

HYPERTEXT

1941 Jorge Luis Borges - The Garden of Forking Paths

1945 Vannevar Bush - As we may think

1962 Douglas Engelbart > oN-Line System (NLS)

1965 Ted Nelson > 'hypertext' & 'hypermedia'

• https://web.archive.org/web/20140201175552/http://faculty.vassar.edu/mijoyce/Ted_sed.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20130510074431/http://faculty.vassar.edu/mijoyce/MiscNews_Feb65.html

1967 Ted Nelson, Andries Van Dam > Hypertext Editing System (HES)

• HES VS FRESS > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/4/1/000081/000081.html#

1968 Douglas Engelbart > The Mother of All Demos

1970 ZOG (then KMS)

1978 Aspen Movie Map

1980 Tim Berners-Lee > ENQUIRE

1980 Roberto Busa > Index Thomisticus

• https://www.corpusthomisticum.org/it/index.age
• https://itreebank.marginalia.it/view/projet.php

1982 Peter J. Brown > Guide