Hypertext

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Definition

  • Hypertext is not just HTML.


Hypertext in education

References

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