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TBL created the web, certainly - but hypertext prior to the web goes far back as an idea (at least as far back as Alan Kay - also an ACM Turing Award winner, II

• hcs 10y ago
  The word, at least, was coined [1] by Ted Nelson, published 1965. The idea goes back at least to Vennevar Bush's Memex proposal [2] in 1945. I haven't heard Kay mentioned as an early proponent of hypertext, I'd be interested to hear more if you can find it. [1] https://elmcip.net/node/7367 https://elmcip.net/node/7367 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex
  • chubot 10y ago
    Yeah I hadn't heard Kay mentioned with hypertext either. I think he is profoundly mistaken about it too (or at least he was until very recently): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14035411 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14035411
• tannhaeuser 10y ago
  While hyperlinks are the essential contribution (which however existed long before the web already), I think the foundational work of encoding text digitally and universally (pioneered by SGML inventor Charles Goldfarb, James Clark, the TEI project, and many others) isn't honored adequately here.