[ih] WWW date?

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And of course, doug engelbart... 


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-----Original Message-----
From: internet-history-bounces at postel.org
[mailto:internet-history-bounces at postel.org] On Behalf Of Terry Gray
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 10:14 PM
To: ian.peter at ianpeter.com
Cc: internet-history at postel.org
Subject: Re: [ih] WWW date?

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?

-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
> 
>    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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