Hypertext

Definition

• Hypertext is not just HTML.

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. 1989: Tim Berners-Lee builds the first prototype of the WWW and invents [[Wikipedia:HTML], formally as Wikipedia:SGML application.
5. 1991: Gopher (Menu-based navigation through files and services on the Internet)
6. 1992-1993: WWWW starts spreading
7. 1981: Start of Ted Nelson's Xanadu project which never managed to take off, first available implementation in 1999 (?)
8. 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.
9. 199 Wikipedia:Wiki