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Subject:Re[2]: Originator of "hypertext" From:"Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- OKWAY -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU> Date:Thu, 15 Dec 1994 14:33:44 -0600
I don't know when Ted Nelson did his thing, but
Vannevar Bush wrote about the "memex," which sounds
like a hypertext-type concept, in The Atlantic Monthly
in July 1945. For more, check out the URL: http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~dduchier/misc/vbush/as-we-may-think.html
Look in Sections 7 and 8.
Eric
ejray -at- okway -dot- okstate -dot- edu
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Subject: Re: Originator of "hypertext"
Author: Gwen Gall <ggall -at- ca -dot- oracle -dot- com> at SMTP
Date: 12/15/94 10:10 AM
Lisa Baker asked who was the originator of the term hypertext. "The Computer
Glossary", 5th ed. says this: "The concept was coined by Ted Nelson was a
method for making the computer respond to the way humans think and require
information".
