Bill,

On Mon, 2 May 2005 20:20:40 -0700, William "Chops" Westfield wrote:

>...< 
> Looking back, it's a bit amazing how many times something very like today's
> web was ALMOST invented.  Plato, Dynabook, hypertext, assorted email conferencing
> systems.

I set up a very simple hypertext system in 1987, because the whole programming department was being made 
redundant and the operators who had to use my systems couldn't ask for help after we'd gone, so I wrote a 
quick & dirty help system for them, using hypertext links (I'd just heard of the idea and it wasn't hard to 
implement).  This was on Datapoint systems, text-only.  I'm not sure how useful they found it - time ran out 
before much actual content was put into it.  Was it really another seven years before HTTP came along?

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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