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Off topic: Thank you for getting me to research the history of the hyperlink [1]. - 1945 linked microfilm pages in the essay "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush
by doomjunky 7y ago
Off topic: Thank you for getting me to research the history of the hyperlink [1].
- 1945 linked microfilm pages in the essay "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush [2]
- 1964 the term "hyperlink" in Project Xanadu by Ted Nelson
- 1983 the "highlighted link" in HyperTIES system by Dan Ostroffin [3]
- 1989 manifesto for the Web by Tim Berners-Lee
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink#History
[2]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m...
[3]: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/hyperties/ http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/hyperties/
- tudorw 7y agoIf you like that you might love this trip back in time from the one and only Douglas Adams; "Douglas falls asleep in front of a television and dreams about future time when he may be allowed to play a more active role in the information he chooses to digest." https://archive.org/details/DouglasAdams-Hyperland https://archive.org/details/DouglasAdams-Hyperland