The Web before the Web: Putting the Hype into Hypertext

In the mid-1970s, the personal computer began to completely revolutionise the world of information technology, creating a unique opportunity for those of us in that industry to invent a different type of computing experience.

Over the next twenty years this innovative new world of personal computing was created. New applications were being invented and being enthusiastically adopted.

By the mid-90s, the basic environment of personal computing had been determined: the internet and the World Wide Web had been established, enabling what we now recognise as the landscapeof modern communications and information publishing.

This book describes these two decades when today’s information world was being invented for the first time; from our perspective as the developers of online interactive documents – hypertext -the technology on which the World Wide Web is based.

The Web has now become the platform on which the modern information world is built: communications, publishing, commerce, and broadcasting are all enabled by this revolutionary technology.

The Web before the Web describes our part in pioneering hypertext, the technology behind this phenomenon.

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