Microcosm (hypermedia system)
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Microcosm was a hypermedia system, originally developed in 1988 by the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, with a small team of researchers in the Computer Science group: Wendy Hall, Andrew Fountain, Hugh Davis and Ian Heath.[1][2] The system pre-dates the web and builds on early hypermedia systems, such as Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu and work of Douglas Engelbart. And like Intermedia or Hyper-G, which were other hypermedia systems created around the same time, Microcosm stores links between documents in a separate database.[3]
See also
[edit | edit source]- Xanadu
- Intermedia
- Hyper-G (or HyperWave)
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Microcosm page from W3C Historical Archives
- Microcosm: an open hypermedia system (1992): Hugh Davis's video demonstration of Microcosm hypermedia features from University of Southampton
- Microcosm in Vision and Reality of Hypertext and Graphical User Interfaces
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