@clausatz @ht @hist_HT @interlisp @amoroso /cf. me on #NoteCards https://mprove.de/visionreality/text/2.1.6_notecards.html

At ACM #Hypertext @ht: Mark Anderson talking about spatial hypertext and its origins, also referring to Frank Halasz's #NoteCards. See his full paper “W(h)ither Spatial Hypertext?” at http://doi.org/10.1145/3720553.3746683
@hist_HT @interlisp @amoroso

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

@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 @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

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

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

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

#computerhistory #chatbot

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

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

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.

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

It's hard to preserve classic videogames as a lot of this software is lost. But it's even harder for the code of most academic and research projects, which achieved no more than niche and limited distribution in the first place and whose servers and repositories are long gone.

#retrocomputing

Sad news: Just heard that George P. #Landow passed away on 31 May at the age of 82. George was Professor Emeritus of English & Art History at #BrownUniversity and a noted #hypertext theorist. My condolences to his wife and family.

I interviewed George in 2009 for the @ACM @sigweb newsletter: https://doi.org/10.1145/1507222.1507226

I'm so excited to know that the 1990s #hypertext software #Guide is on its way from Malawi to #HofUniversity, Germany. Many thanks to Margaret Ngwira for providing me with the discs. I will keep you updated.

If you're interested in vintage hypertext systems, follow the @hist_HT project.

🇬🇧We are the SVGA association (created after the Pixelvetica project), which aims to promote the preservation of video games in Switzerland and to bring together professionals in the field.

Do not hesitate to follow us or to contact us 👉 https://svga.ch/

The #Mosaic #Web browser was released thirty years ago. (Well, we called it a “WWW browser” back then. And boy, was it buggy!)

“Mosaic in the rear view” by @Jayhoffmann

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/blog/postscript/mosaic-in-the-rear-view/

I recently learned that German company Telefunken arguably invented the computer mouse. They offered a “Rollkugelsteuerung” (“rolling ball control”) for one of their mainframes in 1968, months before Douglas Engelbart’s “mother of all demos”. Telefunken’s mouse was also more advanced than Engelbart’s mouse as it used a ball instead of two wheels. (Photo credit:
Marcin Wichary, CC-BY 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/8399025@N07/2322838281 and https://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/2322836557/)

The Computer History Museum and Adobe have now publicly released the source code for PostScript, the 40 year old software underpinning for a ubiquitous “digital printing press.” Fantastic historical essay by @dcbrock here:

“The story of PostScript… is about profound changes in human literacy as well as a story of trade secrets within source code. It is a story about the importance of teams, and of geometry.”

https://computerhistory.org/blog/postscript-a-digital-printing-press/

Ankündigung: Helmholtz launcht neuen Mastodon-Server

Mit https://helmholtz.social/ starten wir heute eine Mastodon-Instanz für die institutionelle #Wissenschaftskommunikation der #Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft.

Hintergründe: https://blogs.helmholtz.de/augenspiegel/2022/12/helmholtz-launcht-neuen-mastodon-server/ #Fediversum (hk)