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The Web is unique, then, in that it allows for the transfer of various types of information through the use of one program--the browser. A browser can access and display information from ftp sites, gopher sites, and so on within one interface. A hypertext document is a document that contains links to other documents. The term "hypertext" was invented by Ted Nelson in 1965 to designate "non-sequential" writing. The idea had been discussed in 1945 by Vannevar Bush, the science advisor to Franklin Delanor Roosevelt during World War II. Bush proposed the idea of the "Memex" in his Atlantic Monthly article "As We May Think." |
Supplemental links (not a required part of the course) Vannevar Bush, "How We May Think"
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| In 1990 a man named Tim Berners-Lee was working at CERN, the European
Particle Physics Laboratory. He invented the World Wide Web when he
created the first browser, the HTTP protocol and Hypertext Markup
Language. He wanted to make it possible for particle physicists in
research institutes around the world to work collaboratively by requesting an
retrieving hypertext documents over the Internet.
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