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== Hypertext in education ==
== Hypertext in education ==
== References ==


== History ==
== History ==
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# 1965: Ted Nelson invents the word "Hypertext"
# 1965: Ted Nelson invents the word "Hypertext"
# 1968: Engelbart demos "HyperMedia" over the network
# 1968: Engelbart demos "HyperMedia" over the network
# 1981: Start of Ted Nelson's Xanadu project which never managed to take off, however there finally was an available implementation in 1999 (?)
# 1992 First commercial hypertext system by Eastgate (still sold as [[http://www.eastgate.com/storyspace/index.html Storyspace]])
# 1989: Tim Berners-Lee builds the first prototype of the WWW and invents [[Wikipedia:HTML|HTML]], formally as a [[Wikipedia:SGML|SGML]] application.
# 1989: Tim Berners-Lee builds the first prototype of the WWW and invents [[Wikipedia:HTML|HTML]], formally as a [[Wikipedia:SGML|SGML]] application.
# 1991: Gopher (Menu-based navigation through files and services on the Internet)
# 1991: Gopher (Menu-based navigation through files and services on the Internet)
# 1992-1993: WWWW starts spreading
# 1992-1993: The WWW starts spreading
# 1981: Start of Ted Nelson's Xanadu project which never managed to take off, first available implementation in 1999 (?)
# 1992 / 1997 Hytime is a complex SGML application. Hytime is an ISO standard that has rarely been used, but it had a big influence on the definition of more recent Web Standards like XLink.
# 1992 / 1997 Hytime is a complex SGML application. Hytime is an ISO standard that has rarely been used, but it had a big influence on the definition of more recent Web Standards like XLink.
# 1995 Ward Cunningham invented the first [[Wikipedia:Wiki|Wiki]]
# 1995 Ward Cunningham invented the first [[Wikipedia:Wiki|Wiki]]
== References ==
* Bush,V. [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/CC/365/mark/material/notes/Chap1/VBushArticle/ As We May Think], originally published in Atlantic Monthly, July 1995.


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Revision as of 18:02, 22 February 2006

Definition

  • Hypertext is not just HTML.


Hypertext in education

History

This is a very incomplete timeline:

  1. 1945: V. Bush, As We May Think
  2. 1965: Ted Nelson invents the word "Hypertext"
  3. 1968: Engelbart demos "HyperMedia" over the network
  4. 1981: Start of Ted Nelson's Xanadu project which never managed to take off, however there finally was an available implementation in 1999 (?)
  5. 1992 First commercial hypertext system by Eastgate (still sold as [Storyspace])
  6. 1989: Tim Berners-Lee builds the first prototype of the WWW and invents HTML, formally as a SGML application.
  7. 1991: Gopher (Menu-based navigation through files and services on the Internet)
  8. 1992-1993: The WWW starts spreading
  9. 1992 / 1997 Hytime is a complex SGML application. Hytime is an ISO standard that has rarely been used, but it had a big influence on the definition of more recent Web Standards like XLink.
  10. 1995 Ward Cunningham invented the first Wiki

References

  • Bush,V. As We May Think, originally published in Atlantic Monthly, July 1995.