Evolution of Hypermedia

"As We May Think"

Jan 1, 1945

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

Jan 1, 1950

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"

Jan 1, 1965

Ted Nelson coined the term "hypertext". http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/nelson.html

Xanadu Project Presented

Jan 1, 1967

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

Jan 1, 1978

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

Jan 1, 1984

A hypermedia database introduced by Telos. http://gtalumni.org/Publications/magazine/spr95/internet.html

Hypercard

Jan 1, 1987

Apple introduces Hypercard - one of the first successful personal program to create hypermedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard

"Information Management: A Proposal"

Jan 1, 1989

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

Jan 1, 1990

Tim Berners-Lee writes hypertext transport protocol (http) http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/lee.html

Mosaic

Jan 1, 1992

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

Oct 1, 1994

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