In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . [thoroughly appropriate focus on Engelbart and his Augment colleagues] . . >(or great) guess and charge forward. They produced the mouse, and the >earliest "linked" documents that I know of. > > http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html . . . 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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list