NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/alt/hypertex/764

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From: [e-mail] (Dave Raggett)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:07:22 GMT
Subject: distributed hypertext project?
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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I am interested in starting a skunk works project to investigate/develop
a public domain hypertext system with links that extend over the internet.
The user interface would look similar to the help system on Microsoft Windows,
but the links would operate over internet connections. The system would
separate data in a standard format from the visualisation programs, so that
you could use PCs, and Macs as well as Unix boxes.

  Has anything like this been done before?

  Any suggestions as to how it should work, and what facilities are needed?

It would be great fun if this could be developed as a group activity, so
if you want join in, mail or phone me at:

Dave Raggett, HPLabs, Bristol, UK

internet: [e-mail]

phone: [phone]