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Stefan Bohacek

It was on this day 36 years ago when @timbl submitted his proposal to CERN for an "information management system", precursor to the World Wide Web.

"In the proposal, Berners-Lee modestly spoke of wanting to use hypertext, a.k.a. links, to help CERN deal with information storage issues.

[...]

His boss’s response?

“Vague, but exciting.”"

vox.com/2019/3/12/18260709/30t

Vox · The World Wide Web — not the internet — turns 30 years oldBy Aja Romano
#OTD#OnThisDay#internet
Stefan Bohacek

Here's the actual proposal, from info.cern.ch/Proposal.html

A piece of history.

A scan of a printed first page of the Information Management Proposal, with the following Abstract section: "This proposal concerns the management of general information about accelerators and experiments at CERN. It discusses the problems of loss of information about complex evolving systems and derives a solution based on a distributed hypertext system." Below are listed keywords: Hypertext, Computer conferencing, Document retrieval, Information management, Project control Further below is a schematic showing a proposed way to organize information in a computer network. At the top of the image is a magnifying glass hovering over a handwritten note that reads: "Vague but exciting..."
wakest ⁂

@stefan this led me down an interesting rabbit hole! I saw that this image mentioned "hyper card" and I didn't realize the term existed before "HyperCard"

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Stefan Bohacek

@liaizon Ha, noticed that too, very interesting!

Wiley Wiggins

@stefan @liaizon initial release of HyperCard was 1987 and this is dated later!

wakest ⁂

@wysiwyggins @stefan oh good catch! I was looking for any mention of the backstory behind Bill naming HyperCard but I didn't find anything. I did find this good podcast though which I am now on the 5th episode of: macfolkloreradio.com/2023/07/0

macfolkloreradio.comMac Folklore Radio - Review: HyperCard 1.0 (1988)Comfort food for Macintosh users of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.
Wiley Wiggins

@liaizon @stefan definitely people had been talking about hypertext since the mother of all demos, but the origin of “card” would be a good indicator of who was influencing who.

Wiley Wiggins

@liaizon @stefan @HXLNT and I had a thought experiment for some art projects about an alternate reality with some AppleTalk-descended networking instead of tcp-ip and HyperCard as the first browser

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@liaizon @stefan HyperCard is newer than 1989? When is it from?
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