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From: munck@linus.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: The Genesis of Hypertext
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Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 15:47:19 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  3 15:47:19 1987
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Reply-To: munck@linus.UUCP (Robert Munck)
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA
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Keywords: hypertext,Bush,Nelson


Jon Backstrom's posting seems to be an accurate assesment of the
contributions of Bush and Nelson to the idea of hypertext: 95% Bush
and 5% Nelson.  I was tangentially involved in the implementation of
the first Hypertext by Andy van Dam and his students at Brown in the
late 1960's.  Waving one's arms is not all that difficult, even if one
can do it quite widely.  On the other hand, wasn't it Bush who
predicted that man would NEVER orbit the earth or land on the moon,
or do something else that has since been done?  For a real visionary
in this area, who actually accomplished something, may I nominate
Doug Englebart?