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Appendix A: A Hypermedia Timeline
- 1945
- Vannevar Bush (The Science Advisor to President Roosevelt during World War II) proposes MEMEX, a conceptual machine that can store vast amounts of information, in which users have the ability to create information trails, links of related texts and illustrations, which can be stored and used for future reference.
- 1965
- Ted Nelson coins the word "hypertext".
- 1967
- Andy van Dam and others build the Hypertext Editing System.
- 1968
- Doug Engelbart demonstrates NLS, a hypertext system.
- 1975
- ZOG (now KMS), a distributed hypermedia system, debuts at Carnegie-Mellon.
- 1978
- The Aspen Movie Map, the first hypermedia videodisc, demonstrated by MIT's Architecture Machine Group.
- 1981
- Ted Nelson conceptualizes "Xanadu", a central, pay-per-document hypertext database encompassing all written information. Read the Xanadu FAQ at
http://jolt.mpx.com.au:70/0h/faq.html.
- 1984
- Telos introduces Filevision, a hypermedia database for the Macintosh.
- 1985
- Janet Walker creates the Symbolics Document Examiner.
- 1985
- Intermedia, a hypermedia system, is conceived at Brown University by Norman Meyrowitz and others.
- 1986
- OWL introduces GUIDE, a hypermedia document browser.
- 1987
- Apple Computers introduces HyperCard, the first widely available personal hypermedia authoring system.
- 1987
- The Hypertext '87 Workshop is held in North Carolina.
- 1989
- Autodesk, a major CAD software manufacturer, takes on Xanadu as a project.
- 1989
- Tim Berners-Lee proposes the World-Wide Web project.
- 1990
- ECHT (European Conference on Hypertext).
- 1992
- Autodesk drops the Xanadu project.
- 1993
- A Hard Day's Night becomes the first full-length movie to be transcribed into a hypertext format and distributed via compact disc.
- April 1993
- International Workshop on Hypermedia and Hypertext Standards, Amsterdam.
- June 1993
- NCSA Mosaic 1.0 for X Windows released by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
- August 1993
- First World-Wide Web developers' conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- November 1993
- Hypertext Conference in Seattle, Washington. Ted Nelson speaks as the guest of honor.
- March 1994
- World-Wide Web byte traffic surpasses Gopher traffic on the NSFnet.
- May 1994
- First International World-Wide Web Conference in Geneva.
- Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen form Mosaic Communications Corporation.
- June 1994
- World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia in Vancouver, Canada.
- For information email
aace@virginia.edu.
- September 1994
- European Conference on Hypermedia Technology in Edinburgh, Scotland.
- For information email
echt94@inesc.pt.
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