Pioneers of WIMPishness (was: A great Alan Kay quote)

[Cameron Laird]

In article <420ab9c9$1 at nntp0.pdx.net>,
Scott David Daniels  <Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org> wrote:
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		focus on Engelbart and
		his Augment colleagues]
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>(or great) guess and charge forward.  They produced the mouse, and the
>earliest "linked" documents that I know of.
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>     http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html
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I entirely agree that Engelbart deserves full recognition for his
achievements.  At the same time, I think we also should note that
Ted Nelson was publishing articles about "hypertext" in '65, and
Vannevar Bush lucidly explained his vision for textual linking in
'45.  With a little provocation, I can push the ideas of "mechanical"
or "machine" referencing back at least to the Enlightenment, and
arguably much farther.