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		doomjunky on Aug 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Miss Microsoft Encarta Off topic: Thank you for getting me to research the history of the hyperlink [1]. - 1945 linked microfilm pages in the essay "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush [2] - 1964 the term "hyperlink" in Project Xanadu by Ted Nelson - 1983 the "highlighted link" in HyperTIES system by Dan Ostroffin [3] - 1989 manifesto for the Web by Tim Berners-Lee [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink#History [2]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m... [3]: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/hyperties/

tudorw on Aug 20, 2019 [–]

If you like that you might love this trip back in time from the one and only Douglas Adams;

"Douglas falls asleep in front of a television and dreams about future time when he may be allowed to play a more active role in the information he chooses to digest."

https://archive.org/details/DouglasAdams-Hyperland

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