[ih] hypertext, was FTP Design

[Tony Finch]

John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
>
> Ted Nelson has been trying to implement his Xanadu model of hypertext
> since about 1969 when he did some work on a 7090 with punch cards.

Another key person is Doug Engelbart. This paper from 1995 compares the
web against his 1990 "essential elements of an open hyperdocument system":
http://www.w3.org/Architecture/NOTE-ioh-arch

Tony.
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