> Our hypertext is not the same as Engelbart's hypertext, because it does not serve the same purpose. Tim Banners-Lee is pretty upfront Engelbart's hypertext w

> Our hypertext is not the same as Engelbart's hypertext, because it does not serve the same purpose. Tim Banners-Lee is pretty upfront Engelbart's hypertext was a direct inspiration [1]: > I didn't invent the hypertext link either. The idea of jumping from one document to another had been thought about lots of people ... > Doug Engelbart in the 1960's made a great system just like WWW except that it just ran on one [big] computer, as the internet hadn't been invented yet. Lots of hypertext systems had been made which just worked on one computer, and didn't link all the way across the world. > I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and -- ta-da! -- the World Wide Web. 1. https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Kids.html https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Kids.html