a history of hypertext

 

Vannevar Bush, 1945, As We May Think

The memex

 

Ted Nelson, Xanadu

1974 Dream Machines

1981 Literary Machines - Xanadu, centralized hypertext archive

Bill Atkinson, HyperCard

1987: Apple bundles HyperCard with every Macintosh

(1993: Myst by Robyn and Rand Miller)

(1998: Riven, ditto)

Tim Berners-Lee, The World Wide Web

1989: Tim Berners-Lee proposes WorldWide Web

1994: Clark & Andreessen form Mosaic (-> Netscape), release 1st beta

1995: DEC's Altavista search engine word-indexes 15 million pages (Dec)

How the Web works

ASCII

TCP/IP

Server/Client

HTML

JPEG

TIFF

Publishing

a poem a day

MUDs and games

Research on MUDs

Hypertext literature