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Created 2010-Aug-11. Updated 2018-Mar-19.

Miscellaneous

Douglas Engelbart

Modern computer "father"

Graphical user interface (2-dimensional display editing), mouse, video teleconferencing, groupware, email, hypertext, document version control etc... all in the 60s!!

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Engelbart's 1968 demo flyer
Doug Engelbart's mother of all demos video, 1968!

Mother of all demos wikipedia article

The Mouse Turns 40 video

Working Together - Douglas Engelbart & Harvey Lehtman

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Engelbart timeline mural


Ted Nelson

The other "father" of the web

American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology.

hypertext and hypermedia concept / term creator.

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Started project Xanadu ... following Vannevar Bush and its theoretical machine called the memory extender (""Memex":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex" c.f. Krell computer terminal ;-) footsteps.... inspiring Tim Berners-Lee in creating the web.