Short History of Hypertext

1945 
Vannevar Bush (Science Advisor to president Roosevelt during WW2) proposes Memex.
1965 
Ted Nelson coins the word "Hypertext" 
1967 
Andy van Dam et al build the Hypertext Editing System and FRESS 
1968 
Doug Engelbart demos NLS system at FJCC 
1975 
ZOG (now KMS) at CMU. 
1978 
Aspen Movie Map, first hypermedia videodisc, MIT. 
1984 
Filevision from Telos: hypermedia database for Macintosh 
1985 
Symbolics Document Examiner, Janet Walker. 
1985 
InterMedia, Brown University, N. Meyrowitz 
1986 
OWL introduces Guide, first widely available hypertext 
1987 
Apple introduces Hypercard, B. Atkinson. 
1987 
Hypertext'87 Workshop 
1990 
ECHT (European Conference on HyperText)