Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet
@ https://monoskop.org/images/e/ee/Hafner_Katie_Lyon_Matthew_Where_Wizards_Stay_Up_Late_The_Origins_Of_The_Internet.pdf
Book about the early history of the Internet.
Vint Cerf Helped Create the Internet on the Back of an Envelope
@ https://archive.ph/k1j4H
Article discussing the history of Vint Cerf's contribution to the design of TCP/IP.
Designers on acid, the tripping Californians who paved the way to our touchscreen world
@ https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/may/11/design-museum-california-designing-freedom-tech-design
Article discussing the origins of the screen-based user interfaces of modern computing, especially regarding Douglas Engelbart's work and influences.
Design Issues
@ https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/
w3 blog by Tim Berners-Lee, lots of ideas about the design of the early WWW.
Doug Engelbart
@ https://dougengelbart.org/
Many resources related to the work of the computing and hypertext pioneer.
Should web browsers have stuck to being document viewers?
@ https://donhopkins.medium.com/alan-kay-on-should-web-browsers-have-stuck-to-being-document-viewers-and-a-discussion-of-news-5cb92c7b3445
An article by Don Hopkins that collects a question on Quora along with further discussion that stemmed from the core topic.
HyperTIES Discussions from Hacker News
@ https://donhopkins.medium.com/hyperties-discussions-from-hacker-news-937d156f0330
An article by Don Hopkins that collects discussions surrounding HyperTIES from a variety of contributors, many involved with the early projects.
Why are hyperlinks blue?
@ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/deep-dives/why-are-hyperlinks-blue/
Discussion over the UI for hyperlinked text with a timeline of the UIs for different browsers and hypertext implementations throughout history.
History of information
@ https://www.historyofinformation.com/
Interactive timeline exploring the history of information and media.
FRESS: The File Retrieval and Editing SyStem
@ http://www.derose.net/steve/writings/whitepapers/fress.html
Brief history of FRESS in the form of a personal account by Steve DeRose, a hypermedia researcher.
Hypertext'87 Trip Report
@ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/trip-report-hypertext-87/
Jakob Nielsen's account of the first Hypertext conference.
Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond
@ https://www.nngroup.com/books/multimedia-and-hypertext/
1995 book from Jakob Nielsen discussing the history and design of hypertext as of that time, and projections of the future.
The Future of the Web Is 100 Years Old
@ http://web.archive.org/web/20220118051854/https://nautil.us/issue/21/information/the-future-of-the-web-is-100-years-old
A history of Paul Otlet and early paper-based information management systems that preceeded the internet.
The Smart City - City of Knowledge
@ https://web.archive.org/web/20171005001712/https://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php/The_Smart_City_-_City_of_Knowledge
Short history of the Mundaneum, an early idea of the Smart City, designed by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine.
Inventing the internet
@ https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511155/inventing-the-internet/
Book by Janet Abbate covering the history of the culture that led to the design of the internet.
History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today
@ https://eylenburg.github.io/browser_engines.htm
Timeline and some historical notes regarding web browser development.
Ted Nelson's personal website
@ http://hyperland.com/Tedpage-D292.html
Various links, news, and history related to hypertext, project xanadu, and history of hypertext and the internet.
Timeline of hypertext history
@ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_hypertext_technology
Wikipedia entry outlining significant milestones in the development of hypertext.
CERN hypertext history 1992
@ http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/
Product research document on history of hypertext and implementers and competitors to WWW written by CERN in 1992.
Early history of Smalltalk
@ http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
Background to a language that is tied heavily to the thought-leaders who influenced the development of hypertext.