| A simple method of organizing and accessing text and other data through the use of hyperlinks. Today, anyone who's been on the Internet is familiar with hypertext as it's the primary way of arranging and accessing data on the Internet. Hypertext is a concept that was first talked about in an Atlantic Monthly article in 1945 by Vannevar Bush, who talked about a photo-electric mechanical device called a Memex (short for memory extension) that could make and follow links between documents on microfiche. This concept was later coined by Ted Nelson in 1965 who worked for and with Andries van Dam at the Brown University. Andries with the help of Ted and other Brown University students created a Hypertext Editing System (HES). However, this type of arrangement and access of data was first demonstrated publically
by Doug Englebart on December 9, 1968. Also see: HES, Hyperlink, Hypermedia, HTML, WWW | |
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