On Tue, 3 May 2005, Ake Hedman wrote:

> Strangely IIRC hypertext was a big British thing.  I had a company that sold 
> software from 1984-1992 and  I can't count how many hypertext application 
> writers  from GB who approached us as a possible distributor. We sold some 
> packages I now don't remember the name of.  In that light Sir Tim 
> Berners-Lee's   <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee> work is 
> understandable and that it was destined to be someone British that would come 
> up with this. I don't know if it was written by a Britt but I think that 
> there was some hypertext application on the Apple machines that was quite 
> successful at the time.

Didn't the French already have the Minitel system by then ? And there 
was something called something else in Britain ? Here is a relevant 
link:

http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/carlson/history/TELETEL.HTM

(back up one directory in the url for more history)

Peter


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