Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com> wrote,
> His 1989 thriller Earth foresaw both global warming and the World Wide Web.
Spike Jones wrote,
> Matthew, global warming was old news by 1989. I remember
> hearing about it when I was in elementary school in the 1960s.
The world wide web was old news to us original arpanet folks.
Hypertext was proposed in 1965 by Ted Nelson, and was demonstrated
with a mouse by Andy van Dam and others who build the Hypertext
Editing System in 1967.
By the time this "prediction" was made in 1989, Apple's HyperCard
implementation of hypertext had been bundled with Macintoshes for two
years. Many papers and workshops had been held on hypertext. In
March of that year, CERN had published its proposal to standardize
the hypertext mark-up language to provide consistency across all
vendors.
-- Harvey Newstrom <HarveyNewstrom.com>
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