The History of Hyperlinks in Computing

The term hyperlink was coined by Ted Nelson who's quite good at these rather bombastic terms transclusion that we use with some frequency. Doug Engelbart's NLS included a version of linking hypercard a lot of that is about how cards link together and so there's the web I think rolls together or is the best manifestation of all of those ideas but the history of it in computing goes back to really to almost the beginning. Now another invention from the 1990s sort of piggybacking on the web is the wiki right and I think Ward Cunningham was the inventor of the first of these and it certainly builds on that foundation of the web.