The following list marks some major events in the history of hypertext:
1945 | Vannevar Bush proposes Memex in his article "As We May Think". |
1965 | Ted Nelson introduces Xanadu and coins the term hypertext. |
1967 | Andries van Dam develops the Hypertext Editing System at Brown University, followed by the introduction of FRESS in 1968. |
1968 | Doug Engelbart gives a demo of NLS, a part of the Augment project, started in 1962. |
1975 | A team at CMU, headed by Robertson, develops the ZOG system, which later becomes KMS. |
1978 | A team at MIT, headed by Andrew Lippman, develops the Aspen Movie Map, the first true example of a multimedia application including videodisk. |
1985 | Janet Walker develops the Symbolics Document Examiner, the first hypertext system used by "real" customers. |
1985 | Several other hypertext systems are announced, including NoteCards from Xerox, and Intermedia from Brown University. |
1986 | OWL introduces Guide for the Macintosh, the first widely available hypertext system, based on the Unix Guide system, developed by Peter Brown at the University of Kent. |
1987 | Apple delivers HyperCard free with every Macintosh. |
1987 | The ACM organizes the first Conference on Hypertext. |
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