Hypercard and the World Wide Web

["Donald C. Lee" <coach41@pacbell.net>]

Hi All,

I still have a stash of old A2 mags around and have re-read them many 
times.  Among the items discussed were Hypercard, Hyperstudio and 
Tutor-Tech (among other hyper-media items).

In reading those old articles, it suddenly dawned on me that a lot of 
terms used in describing those hypermedia programs (hyperlinks, 
graphics, video, text) were similiar to what is used on the World Wide 
Web/Internet today.

Obviously, the "Internet" has existed for quite sometime, but did not 
take it's present shape until the 90's.

So, did the folks who eventually created the Internet/WWW as we know it 
today borrow ideas from Hypercard and other apps that came at the time?

I was around in the mid 90's when the WWW took off but never knew what 
the background of the launch of the World Wide Web.

A article on the web seems to suggest that Hypercard played a small part:

http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html


With a lot of folks here familiar with the WWW and Hypercard, I'm 
curious to your thoughts on this.

Don