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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!!
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 |
Ted Nelson
The other "father" of the web
American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology.
hypertext and hypermedia concept / term creator.
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.