Interactive Media Timeline-1960's

· 1960 - Development began on Project Xanadu
o Project Xanadu was pretty much the inspiration for the World Wide Web and for HyperCard.
§ http://www.xanadu.com/xuhome.html
· 1962 - Douglas Englebart started work on NLS
o in 1962 started work on Augment, and as part of this effort he started working on NLS (oN-Line System).
o http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_engelbart.htm
· 1964 - RAM is invented by John Schmidt----(actually was invented by Robert Dennard)
o One of the most significant creations in computer technology: "RAM."
§ http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/Dennard.html
· 1965 - Ted Nelson coins the terms “hypertext” and “hypermedia”.
o Nelson coined the terms in a paper to the ACM 20th national conference.
§ http://www.w3.org/WhatIs.html
· 1968 - Ted Nelson invents hypertext
o Nelson originally invented the word hypertext for "non-sequential writing”
§ http://www.w3.org/Xanadu.html#Nelson
· 1968 - Douglas Englebart gives Mother of All Demos
o Engelbart and a group of 17 researchers presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS.
§ http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html
· 1969 - UNIX created by Bell Labs
o UNIX came from an effort in the early 1960s to build a dependable timesharing operating system.
§ http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/