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Hello Jasen - 

CA>> The way it comes back to me it seems that Wozniak and APPLE
CA>> were pushing hypertext prior to HTML etc. harder than
CA>> most. Not sure whose 'idea' it was but it was being
CA>> discussed in most computer magazines for quite some time. 

JB> they has something called hypercard.... but I expect they
JB> sat on the details too much, the people at CERN didn't
JB> restrict the use og HTML in the same way. 

APPLE, at the start, was good at knowing a 'good thing' when
they saw it. At times they followed through and at other times
closed ranks and smothered the idea. 

JB> I was playinhg with a reader for the jargon-file (which is
JB> full of self-references) about the same time (well maybe a
JB> couple of years late :) ) but it got lost when I was out of
JB> town. 

How does something "get lost" when you are out of town? ;-) 

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