A D V E N T U R E S in C Y B E R S O U N DA Hypermedia Timeline 1945 - 19941945 Vannevar Bush proposes MEMEX, a conceptual machine that can store vast amounts of information, (and with) which users have the ability to create information trails, links of related texts and illustrations, which can be stored and used for future reference 1965 Ted Nelson coins the word hypertext 1967 Andy van Dam and others build the Hypertext Editing System 1968 Doug Engelbart demonstrates NLS, a hypertext system 1975 ZOG (now KMS), a distributed hypermedia system, debuts at Carnegie-Mellon 1978 The Aspen Movie Map, the first hypermedia videodisc, demonstrated by MIT's Architecture Machine Group 1981 Ted Nelson conceptualizes Xanadu, a central, pay-per-document hypertext database encompassing all written information 1984 Telos introduces Filevision, a hypermedia database for the Macintosh 1985 Janet Walker creates the Symbolics Document Examiner 1985 Intermedia, a hypermedia system, is conceived at Brown University by Norman Meyrowitz and others 1986 OWL introduces GUIDE, a hypermedia document browser 1987 Apple Computers introduces HyperCard, the first widely available personal hypermedia authoring system 1987 The Hypertext '87 Workshop is held in North Carolina 1989 Autodesk, a major CAD software manufacturer, takes on Xanadu as a project 1989 Tim Berners-Lee proposes the World-Wide Web project 1990 ECHT (European Conference on Hypertext) 1992 Autodesk drops the Xanadu project 1993 A Hard Day's Night becomes the first full-length movie to be transcribed into a hypertext format and distributed via compact disc April 1993 International Workshop on Hypermedia and Hypertext Standards, Amsterdam June 1993 NCSA Mosaic 1.0 for X Windows released by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications August 1993 First World-Wide Web developers' conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts November 1993 Hypertext Conference in Seattle, Washington. Ted Nelson speaks as the guest of honor March 1994 World-Wide Web byte traffic surpasses Gopher traffic on the NSFnet May 1994 First International World-Wide Web Conference in Geneva Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen form Mosaic Communications Corporation June 1994 World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia in Vancouver, Canada September 1994 European Conference on Hypermedia Technology in Edinburgh, Scotland
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