Doug Engelbart: Developing the Underlying Concepts for Contemporary Computing
“What is missing from the current commercial descriptions of the Web is a discussion about the 30-year history of R&D that created the underlying technologies on which the Web is based. Much of this foundation was laid in the 1960s by Doug Engelbart. In 1968, he demonstrated his concept of “interactive computing” to a group of computer scientists, now considered a seminal event in the history of computing." Source: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Vol.19 Issue 3.
Hypertext/Hypermedia Handbook
Hypertext/Hypermedia Handbook
“This handbook is a guide to designing and implementing with hypertext, including a survey of current hypertext practices, with contributions from professional hypertext developers." Engelbart's chapter anticipates that the tools and methods of computer-supported cooperative work will become harnessed with revolutionary benefit to the ongoing, everyday knowledge work within and between organizations, necessitating interoperability between knowledge-work domains through something like the "open hyperdocument system" made available for widespread use.
Engelbart Chapter pp. 397-413 | Knowledge-domain interoperability and an open hyperdocument system
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