Stone to Silicon

Communication · 1965

Hypertext

Ted Nelson coins a word for text that links to other text.

Ted Nelson introduced the term hypertext in 1965, and Douglas Engelbart's 1968 'Mother of All Demos' showed linked documents, a mouse and shared editing. Clickable links between documents became the organising principle of the World Wide Web.

See it in the living treeWikipedia

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 2

What it led to 1

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

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