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Thanks, very interesting. And some useful links. I wrote my masters dissertation on hypermedia back in 1991, and I remember that references to AWMT kept appear

Thanks, very interesting. And some useful links. I wrote my masters dissertation on hypermedia back in 1991, and I remember that references to AWMT kept appearing in papers I was reading. When I read it I could see how it related to hypermedia as it existed in the early nineties, but 1945 seemed rather distant and the paper seemed to stand on its own, rather than being the start of something. I haven't thought about it since, but it now seems obvious that this was because of my lack of knowledge at the time. I wasn't aware then of Englebart's work, for example. I re-read Literary Machines only last year, but had completely forgotten that Nelson included AWMT in it. I may pull it off the bookshelf again tonight.

grlloyd 14y ago
I think the trail led from Doug Engelbart and folk who were directly or indirectly influenced by his 1968 Demo as well as Ted Nelson and Computer Lib / Literary Machines. Doug donated his personal copy of "As We May Think" with marginal notes to the Computer History Museum (you can download a copy). He wrote about Bush's influence in "Augmenting Human Intelligence" (1962) and talked about it in a Stanford University Oral History interview. See http://www.dougengelbart.org/events/vannevar-bush-symposium.html#3 http://www.dougengelbart.org/events/vannevar-bush-symposium....