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The term hypertext, coined by Theodore Nelson in 1965, refers to linked, nonsequential information processing using a computer (Seyer, 1991). He could have been speaking of psychiatric record keeping when he stated “Everything is deeply intertwingled” (Horn, 1989, p. 259). It was Vannevar Bush, however, who first described a hypertextlike device he termed the MEMEX in an Atlantic Monthly article “As We May Think” in 1945. Bush saw this device as an extension of the human memory, and many of his concepts antedated the hardware developments that made them practical today (mass storage devices, scanners, modems). It was Douglas Englebart who first implemented such a system in 1962. Englebart also developed fundamentals of computing today such as the mouse and outline processing (Horn, 1989).
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Alex, N. (1996). Hypertext Access to Psychiatric Information. In: Mental Health Computing. Computers and Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2352-8_21
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