Short History of Hypertext

1945

Vannevar Bush (Science Advisor to president Roosevelt during WW2) proposes Memex.

1965

Ted Nelson coins the word "Hypertext"

1967

Andy van Dam et al build the Hypertext Editing System and FRESS

1968

Doug Engelbart demos NLS system at FJCC

1975

ZOG (now KMS) at CMU.

1978

Aspen Movie Map, first hypermedia videodisc, MIT.

1984

Filevision from Telos: hypermedia database for Macintosh

1985

Symbolics Document Examiner, Janet Walker.

1985

InterMedia, Brown University, N. Meyrowitz

1986

OWL introduces Guide, first widely available hypertext

1987

Apple introduces Hypercard, B. Atkinson.

1987

Hypertext'87 Workshop

1990

ECHT (European Conference on HyperText)