Re: Hypercard and the World Wide Web

[gozarcollins@SPAMTRAPhotmail.com]

Donald C. Lee <coach41@pacbell.net> wrote:
> 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 

Wired has an article in the August Issue on the beginnings of the WWW:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html

Research started in 1945 by Vannevar Bush, but the first to really try 
to work on it was Ted Nelson in 1965. The work with hypermedia probably
did have some importance in the design of the browsers and what the WWW 
could become.

-- 
Ryan 'Gozar' Collins