The History of Hypertext -- [in Progress]

A Brief History of the Concept of Hypertext

Key Figures, Pioneering Systems

• Vannevar Bush
  • The Memex
  • Ian Adelman and Paul Kahn's animation of the Memex
• Douglas Englebart
  • Augment
• Theodor H. Nelson
  • Coins terms hypertext, docuverse
  • Xanadu
• Andries van Dam
  • HES (Hypertext Editing System), 1967.
  • FRESS
• IRIS Intermedia (1987-92)
• Guide
• Hypercard
• DynaText (from Electronic Book Technologies)
• Microcosm (University of Southampton, UK)
• Sepia (GMD-IPSI)

Wide-Area Networked Systems

• html and WWW viewers
• Hyper-G (Grasz, Austria)

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