Have your first ideas in regard to the Web been influenced by any specific work or published paper like Vanevar Bushs “As we my think”, apublication of Doug Engelbart or Ted Nelson?
A. There wasn’t a direct line. I did come across Ted’s work while I was working on the WWW — after my “Enquire” program (1980) but during my reading up on hypertext – probably between March 89 and September 1990. Not sure.. Of course by 1989 there was hypertext as a common word, hypertext help everywhere, so Ted’s basic idea had been (sort of) implemented and I came across it though many indirect routes. I came across Ted’s name first of course. Then I ordered “Literary Machines”, and I remember I was late paying him as he didn’t take credit cards or Swiss cheques – I paid him in August 1992, in cash, in person in Sausolito. I came across Vannevar Bush’s article first in the documentation of Digital Equipment Corporation’s “Memex” project which became “Linkworks” for VMS. I don’t remember when that came out. Great paper. Doug Englebart’s work was the closest to the Web design — when I saw that the first time I was amazed.
A. There wasn’t a direct line. I did come across Ted’s work while I was working on the WWW — after my “Enquire” program (1980) but during my reading up on hypertext – probably between March 89 and September 1990. Not sure.. Of course by 1989 there was hypertext as a common word, hypertext help everywhere, so Ted’s basic idea had been (sort of) implemented and I came across it though many indirect routes. I came across Ted’s name first of course. Then I ordered “Literary Machines”, and I remember I was late paying him as he didn’t take credit cards or Swiss cheques – I paid him in August 1992, in cash, in person in Sausolito. I came across Vannevar Bush’s article first in the documentation of Digital Equipment Corporation’s “Memex” project which became “Linkworks” for VMS. I don’t remember when that came out. Great paper. Doug Englebart’s work was the closest to the Web design — when I saw that the first time I was amazed. He had even used the hash sign as a delimiter for the address
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