[ih] WWW date?

[ian.peter at ianpeter.com]

Quoting Terry Gray <gray+history at washington.edu>:

> Ian,
> I was under the impression that the hypertext idea pre-dated Ted
> Nelson by some years; in particular, I've usually heard the concept
> attributed to Vannevar Bush in his 1945 article "As We May Think", in
> which he describes the "Memex" personal information machine...
>
>   http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush
>
> No?
>

I think the word was Ted's but yes the concept is older - indeed  
taking a long bow, ancient hieroglyphic tablets cross referenced each  
other.

U R right, Vannevar Bush deserves a mention in this context.

Ian Peter
www.nethistory.info

> -teg
>
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, ian.peter at ianpeter.com wrote:
>
>>    As in many things it depends on what you mean by "birth of the web"
>>
>>    Was it Ted Nelson's Xanadu? (probably the earliest direct   
>> origins with the
>> concept of hypertext)
>>
>>    Was it the concept of a url? (necessary pre-requisite)
>>
>>    Was it html (necessary pre-requisite)
>>
>>    Was it availability of a browser (necessary pre-requisite again)
>>
>>    So you can probably spin it a bit earlier than 1989, but certainly the
>>    Tim Berners Lee work brought this all together.
>>
>>    Ive written a brief history a few years back at
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>>    http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/web.html
>>
>>    and there are a few other links of relevance on the site. I realise
>>    looking back at this I don't have a date for either url or html - did
>>    any of these relevant standards precede the W3C split from IETF?
>>
>> Ian Peter
>> www.nethistory.info
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