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"As We May Think"
Vannevar Bush questions the organization and retrieval of information. http://www.cs.sfu.ca/CC/365/mark/material/notes/Chap1/VBushArticle/vbush-all.html -
Vannevar Bush
Helped build the relationship betwenn the scienitific community, business sector, and the government. Called for the National Science Foundation to be created and it was in 1950 although with not as much power as Bush had hoped. http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/bush.html -
Ted Nelson Coins "Hypertext"
Ted Nelson coined the term "hypertext". http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/nelson.html -
Xanadu Project Presented
Ted Nelson named and continued to develop his system , Xanadu. Transclusion is the structure of Xanadu. Xanadu was never fully developed. It became open source in 1999. http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/nelson.html -
Aspen Movie Map
First hypermedia videodisk introduced. http://gtalumni.org/Publications/magazine/spr95/internet.html image: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0b/Qadas.jpg/180px-Qadas.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen_Movie_Map&usg=__Meo2JRa1UubmDy7mzTouJpz9nl0=&h=272&w=180&sz=22&hl=en&start=7&sig2=EAS7m1KKdL_bahXi-nSq6Q&um=1&tbnid=mqPnlPWUe4nyKM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=75&ei=c-V_ScTINsiCtweMtNzwCw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Daspen%2Bmovie%2Bmap%26um%3D1%26h -
File Vision
A hypermedia database introduced by Telos. http://gtalumni.org/Publications/magazine/spr95/internet.html -
Hypercard
Apple introduces Hypercard - one of the first successful personal program to create hypermedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard -
"Information Management: A Proposal"
Tim Berners-Lee presents his ideas for what is now the WWW. http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/FUNET/history/internet/w3c/proposal.html image: http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/lee.html -
Hypertext Transport Protocol
Tim Berners-Lee writes hypertext transport protocol (http) http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/lee.html -
Mosaic
While at the University of Illinois, Mark Andreesen with the help of fellow graduates writes the Mosaic web browser. http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/andreesen.html -
Netscape
Marc Andreesen was a primary developer of Netscape which AOL purchasaed in 1999 and did not develop further. http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/andreesen.html