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I had no idea what NLS was so I did a quick wikipedia search: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLS_(computer_system)

"One of NLS's most revolutionary features, the Journal, was developed in 1970 by Australian computer engineer David A. Evans as part of his doctoral thesis.[6] The Journal was a primitive hypertext-based groupware program which can be seen as a predecessor (if not the direct ancestor) of all contemporary server software that supports collaborative document creation (like wikis). It was used by ARC members to discuss, debate, and refine concepts in the same way that wikis are being used today."

A wiki in 1970. I feel like we've forgotten so much.




Gibson's "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed" comes to mind.




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