Difference between revisions of "Web history"
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==Precursors to the Web== | ==Precursors to the Web== | ||
| − | The concept of [[ | + | The concept of [[hypertext]], which underlies the Web, originated in the 1960s, with projects such as Ted Nelson's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu Project Xanadu], Douglas Engelbart's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLS_%28computer_system%29 oN-Line System], and Andries van Dam's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Editing_System Hypertext Editing System]. Both Nelson and Engelbart were inspired by Vannevar Bush's |
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex Memex], a micro-film system which Bush imagined in the 1945 essay "As We May Think". | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex Memex], a micro-film system which Bush imagined in the 1945 essay "As We May Think". | ||
