AWMT was certainly a hot topic and required course reading from 1968 on... I was a student of Andy van Dam's in that era and early user of the Hypertext Editing

AWMT was certainly a hot topic and required course reading from 1968 on... I was a student of Andy van Dam's in that era and early user of the Hypertext Editing System developed at Brown with Ted Nelson. Certainly for Intermedia and Nelson's "Literary Machines" era; Nelson published a full copy of AWMT in his 1980 book. Doug Engelbart frequently tells the story of reading "As We May Think" as an enlisted radar technician in a thatched hut Red Cross Library in 1945 (see Belinda Barnet link below) Ted Nelson said in an Aug 2000 telephone interview: "I think I read it when it came out in 1945. Since I was eight my memory is necessarily incomplete. Everyone else who would have been in the family is now deceased. But we did subscribe to the Atlantic Monthly and I think there's a very good chance I read it at that time." ~ Ted Nelson http://illuminationgallery.net/wr/hypertext/nelson.html http://illuminationgallery.net/wr/hypertext/nelson.html Belinda Barnet's PhD thesis on the intellectual history of hypertext will be published as a book early next year, including extensive interviews with Doug Engelbart, Ted Nelson, and Andy van Dam. She writes frequently on the subject, often published in Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ For a good 2008 paper by Belinda and Darren Toffs, on Bush, Engelbart and Nelson see: Too Dimensional: Literary and Technical Images of Potentiality in the History of Hypertext http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/view?docId=blackwell/9781405148641/9781405148641.xml&doc.view=content&chunk.id=ss1-5-9&toc.depth=1&brand=9781405148641_brand&anchor.id=0 http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/view?docId=blackw... A Companion to Digital Literary Studies, ed. Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.