What are some historical milestones about hypertext?
Vannevar Bush is credited with describing the first hypermedia system, named memex. He wrote about it in his 1945 article As We May Think. Denys Duchier of Simon Frasier Univ. has put both plain text and HTML versions on the WWW. Emanuel Goldberg has also been credited with inventing a system very similar to memex (see the 08 Apr 2006 entry in Mark Bernstein’s blog for some details and a link). Ted Nelson coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia to describe his proposed system called Xanadu. (Those terms are defined in question 1.2. More information about Xanadu is available in question 2.1.) According to an article in Vassar College’s Miscellany News, he used the term hypertext in a talk there in 1965. Nelson’s book Literary Machines is largely about Xanadu. Douglas Engelbart demonstrated the first computerized hypertext system, called NLS/Augment circa 1968. He also invented the computer mouse, graphical user interface, etc. Randy Trigg wrote the first Ph.D. dissertation based on hy
