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, shown at MIT.
- 1981
- Ted Nelson conceptualizes "Xanadu", a central, pay-per-document hypertext database encompassing all written information.
- 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
- Hypertext '87 Workshop.
- 1989
- Autodesk, a major CAD software manufacturer, takes on Xanadu as a project.
- 1989
- Tim Berners-Lee proposes World-Wide Web project.
- 1990
- ECHT (European Conference on Hypertext).
- 1992
- Autodesk drops the Xanadu project.
- Apr 1993
- International Workshop on Hypermedia and Hypertext Standards, Amsterdam.
- Jun 1993
- Mosaic 1.0 for X windows released by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
- Aug 1993
- First World-Wide Web developers' conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Nov 1993
- Hypertext Conference in Seattle, Washington.
- For information email ht93@atc.boeing.com.
- June 1994
- World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia in Vancouver, Canada.
- For information email aace@virginia.edu.