Hypertext and NLS (Mother of All Demos)
Hipertexto y sistema NLS (Madre de todas las demos)
- Date
- 1968 · confidence high
- Place
- SRI International, Menlo Park, California, United States
- Credited to
- Douglas Engelbart (SRI); the term hypertext coined by Ted Nelson (1963-1965)
- People
- 👤 Douglas Engelbart1925–2013
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A system that combined links between documents, windows, a mouse, collaborative editing and video conferencing, shown in a 90-minute demonstration in 1968. It anticipated personal computing and the web by twenty years.
What it led to
- The World Wide Web and navigation by links
- Real-time collaboration (Google Docs, video conferencing)
- The vision of the computer as an amplifier of human intellect
Built on
- Time-sharing operating system (CTSS, Multics)1961
- Computer mouse1964
- Vannevar Bush's Memex
- time-sharing system
Made possible
- World Wide Web1989-1991
- HyperCard
- Google Docs