page-title: Short History of Hypertext
h1: Short History of Hypertext
referenceURL: https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/History.html
This chronological list identifies the foundational milestones in the development of hypertext and hypermedia systems prior to the birth of the WorldWideWeb project.\n
1945: Vannevar Bush (Science Advisor to President Roosevelt during WW2) proposes "Memex," a conceptual machine to store and link vast amounts of information.
1965: Ted Nelson coins the word "Hypertext" to describe non-linear writing.
1967: Andy van Dam and others build the Hypertext Editing System and FRESS at Brown University.
1968: Doug Engelbart demonstrates the NLS (oN-Line System) at the Fall Joint Computer Conference (the "Mother of All Demos").
1975: ZOG (now KMS) is developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
1978: The Aspen Movie Map is created at MIT—the first hypermedia videodisc.
1984: Filevision from Telos: A hypermedia database for the Macintosh.
1985: Symbolics Document Examiner (Janet Walker) and InterMedia (Norman Meyrowitz at Brown University).
1985 InterMedia, Brown University, N. Meyrowitz
1986: OWL introduces "Guide," the first widely available hypertext system for personal computers.
1987: Apple introduces HyperCard (Bill Atkinson). The first Hypertext '87 Workshop is held.
1987 Hypertext'87 Workshop I am running a few minutes late; my previous meeting is running over.
1990: ECHT (European Conference on HyperText) marks a major expansion in the field.\n
