The Historic Hypertext Project

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“The Historic Hypertext Project” aims at collecting and running vintage #hypertext systems. ✻ Coordinated by @clausatz (professor at Hof University, Germany) ✻ Project website at https://human.iisys.de/hist_HT
Coordinator@clausatz
Websitehttps://human.iisys.de/hist_HT
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Hello from the Medley Interlisp Project! We revive and modernize the Medley Interlisp extensible graphical operating and programming environment created at Xerox PARC.

https://interlisp.org

We post news & updates, tips, historical info, and more. We look forward to connecting with researchers, software preservation experts, Lisp programmers, retrocomputing enthusiasts, and anyone interested.

#interlisp #lisp #retrocomputing #VintageComputing #SoftwarePreservation #xerox #introduction #parc

Medley Interlisp Project

The Medley Interlisp Project a retrofuturistic software system What did we leave behind on the path to developing today's computer systems? Could there be lessons for the future of computing hidden in the past? Enter the Medley software environment to explore these questions. The Interlisp Revival Welcome to the start of a new chapter in software preservation and computing. We're a group of researchers, software developers, and friends working to make the Medley Interlisp system available for use on modern computer systems.

The Medley Interlisp Project

@amoroso @hist_HT @clausatz I think it is always good to remind people that in 1945 saw the first real discussion on the ideas that underpin the #www

https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm

By Vannevar Bush

#hypertext #www

@TheAtlantic

The Atlantic | July 1945 | As We May Think | Bush

The 1945 Atlantic Monthly article by Vannevar Bush that prophesied hypertext and the Internet

The @hist_HT Historic Hypertext Project: Mind-Blowing Hypertext Systems and Paradigms:

"[...] aims at collecting and running historic hypertext systems. We try to install them in virtual machines and provide information about their functionalities and technologies."

The project coordinator is Prof. Claus Atzenbeck @clausatz of Hof University, Germany.

#hypertext #retrocomputing

The rise of the Web prematurely ended an era of active research and creative experimentation with hypertext technologies. In this paper @eastgate picks up where this era left off, and presents a neoclassical extension to embed web components in a classical hypertext system.

A Novel Architecture for Classical Hypertext
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3648188.3675147

#hypertext #web

A Novel Architecture for Classical Hypertext | Proceedings of the 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

ACM Conferences

I'm having too much fun exploring NoteCards, the hypermedia system of Medley Interlisp. It provides a rich hypertext environment and tools as well as an extensive, easy to use Interlisp API.

This is a good introduction:

Notecards in a Nutshell
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/29933.30859

#NoteCards #interlisp #HyperText

Notecards in a nutshell | Proceedings of the SIGCHI/GI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems and Graphics Interface

ACM Conferences

Since there seems to be renewed interest in #CDE, I thought I'd have a look at the my CDE utilities from back then, which led me to my old Web page “Linux on a VAIO Z600LEK” http://dynalabs.de/mxp.old/vaio/index.html, because there's a screenshot of my work environment from back then. ⇢

#retrocomputing

Linux on a VAIO Z600LEK

Joe #Weizenbaum –himself! – demonstrates ELIZA in 1967.
Scrub forward to 14:44 https://archive.org/details/thecommunicationsexplosion

#computerhistory #chatbot

The Communications Explosion (1967) : Columbia Broadcasting System, inc : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Investigates the world of the twenty - first century with particular reference to patterns of communication and their projected impact upon man. Describes the...

Internet Archive

@dubroy It’s good stuff! That’s why it’s in the permanent collection:

https://jackrusher.com/classic-ux/

Classic HCI demos

A curated collection of HCI demo videos produced during the golden age from 1983-2002.

Classic HCI demos

I’ve expanded Infinite Mac to cover NeXT operating systems, with the help of the Previous emulator. See https://infinitemac.org/?filter=next for all releases between 1988 and 1997, and https://blog.persistent.info/2024/03/infinite-mac-nextstep.html for tidbits about the porting work and other site updates.

And to keep things in the #MARCHintosh spirit, you can use the Daydream/Darkmatter emulator to run System 7 on the emulated NeXT hardware and so have a replica of one of the more esoteric combos of the early 90s.

Infinite Mac

A classic Mac loaded with everything you'd want.

The development of Guide starts in 1982 at the University of Kent. Peter Brown has a first version running on a workstation one year later. In 1984 the British company Office Workstations Ltd. (OWL) gets interested and releases a Macintosh version in 1986. Soon thereafter Guide is ported to IBM-PCs. Guide becomes the first popular commercial #hypertext system.
More at https://mprove.de/visionreality/text/2.1.9_guide.html
@clausatz @hist_HT #historyOfHypertext #historyOfInformatics
Vision and Reality of Hypertext and GUIs: 2.1.9 Guide @mprove

mprove.de