On Nov 20, 2010, at 8:41 AM, William Chops Westfield wrote:

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> On Nov 20, 2010, at 5:39 AM, Olin Lathrop wrote:
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>> As for Apple inventing the web, technically they didn't, but they =20
>> did have
>> something called "Hypercards" (I may be a little off on the name) that
>> preceeded HTML but had some of the key concepts, including links =20
>> between
>> documents.
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> I was going to say this (and the other part about internet vs web), =20
> but I did a bit of research first.  It turns out that Tim BL was one =20
> of the original implementors of hypertext documents, back BEFORE apple =20
> did Hypercard.  But then, hypertext was apparently first envisioned =20
> back in 1945 (!), and the first implementation of anything hypertext-=20
> like was in 68.

Vannevar Bush was toying with hypertext type ideas in '45:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex

-Pete
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