Abstract. Looking into the long history of hypertext and graphical user interfaces reveals fascinating insights that might help build a computer environment that really propels us into the future.
Slides
Back to the Future 45 slides, 14.6 MB
Back to the Future The Way to a Personal Dynamic Medium for Creative Thought from Matthias Mueller-Prove
References to the movie clips
- Sketchpad (4' 03"), ca. 1962. Broy, Denert (eds.): Software Pioneers (DVD Extras)
- Interview with Jeff Rulifson (2' 08"), 2000. Invisible Revolution
- Alto Playroom (1' 02"), ca. 1974. Broy, Denert (eds.): Software Pioneers (DVD Extras)
- Put-That-There (1' 25"), ca. 1979. The NewMedia Reader (CD Extras)
Notes from the Audience
interconnected.org/notes/2005/06/reboot7/Back to the future.txt
Further Reading
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Der Computer als Werkzeug und Medium – Die geistigen und technischen Wurzeln des Personal Computers (497 pages, German)
The PhD thesis of Dr. Michael Friedewald
Two sections of the appendix are online:
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Software Pioneers – Contributions to Software Engineering (728 pages, 4 DVDs)
Reader of the conference Software Pioneers, Bonn 2001. The entire 2 day conference is available on DVD; and on the conference homepage
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The NewMedia Reader (823 pages, 1 CD)
A wonderful reader with otherwise hard to find early and influential articles.
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Bootstrapping – Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing (284 pages) |
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NERDS 2.0.1– A Brief History of the Internet
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Dealers of Lightning – Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (448 pages)
better than “Fumbling the Future”
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how the web was born (372 pages)
coauthored by one of the inventors: Robert Cailliau
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A History of Modern Computing (398 pages)
more technical than NERDS 2.0.1 – less focussed on the user interface than Der Computer als Werkzeug und Medium
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à propos
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