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Vannevar
Bush
Science Advisor to president Roosevelt during WW2 - proposed the Memex
-- a conceptual machine that can store vast amounts of information,
in which users have the ability to create information trails, links
of related texts and illustrations, which can be stored and used for
future reference.
Wrote a famous article titled "As We May Think" published
in The Atlantic Monthly in July of 1945. His article presented an
early concept of our modern use of hypertext and hyperlinks.
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Ted
Nelson
conceptualized "Xanadu", a central, pay-per-document
hypertext database encompassing all written information.
Xanadu was meant to be a universal library, a worldwide hypertext
publishing tool, a system to resolve copyright disputes, and a meritocratic
forum for discussion and debate.
By putting all
information within reach of all people, Xanadu was meant to eliminate
scientific ignorance and cure political misunderstandings.
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Tim
Berners-Lee
With a background of system design in real-time communications and
text processing software development, in 1989 he invented the World
Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information
sharing. while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory.
He wrote the first web client (browser-editor) and server in 1990.
Tim now directs the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an open forum
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Marc
Andreessen
Marc
Andreessen is the co-founder and vice-president of technology of Netscape
Communications Corporation. Netscape was founded by Andreessen and
computer scientist-entrepreneur Jim Clark to develop and market an
enhanced version of NCSA Mosaic, the first Internet browser, which
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