Re: Error in WWW history

Anders Fagerjord wrote:
> 
> On A Little History of the World Wide Web,
> http://www.w3.org/History.html, you claim that "Ted Nelson coins the
> word Hypertext in the 1965 publication of Literary Machines". The
> first version of Literary Machines was published in 1981. Hypertext
> was coined in Ted Nelson's paper "A File Structure for the Complex,
> the Changing, and the Indeterminate". 20th National Conference, New
> York, Association for Computing Machinery, 1965.

Thanks; after finding independent verification of this
info, I have updated the page.
$Revision: 1.24 $ of $Date: 2001/02/16 16:23:01 $

I'm copying www-talk, folks that I think should know about
updates to this page; and site-comments, folks that
help me maintain the page. I presume you don't mind, Anders.

> Homepage: http://www.media.uio.no/personer/andersf/

-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Friday, 16 February 2001 11:24:57 UTC