Web References

Software-Ergonomie und das World Wide Web: 10 wichtige Leitlinien für die Gestaltung von ergonomischen WWW-Informationssystemen

• The reification of metaphor as a design tool

• Timeline of Computer History
• Internet History

Michael Friedewald

• Triumph of the Nerds
• Nerds 2.0.1

• A Little History of the World Wide Web (W₃C)
• Die Entwicklung des World-Wide Web (Symposium 1998)
• How the Web Was Born : The Story of the World Wide Web (November 2000)

• cpsr-history@cpsr.org mailing list
  cpsr-history (4 Jun 1996 to 10 Jun 1996)

• Yahoo Internet History Links
• Pioneers Of The Internet – @Internet Archive
• A Brief Guide to the History of the Internet at InvestInTech.com
• Hobbes’ Internet Timeline v5.4

"As We May Think"

A Celebration of Vannevar Bush's 1945 Vision,
An Examination of What Has Been Accomplished, and What Remains to Be Done

MemexSim

Butler W. Lampson

David Curbow

The Xerox Alto Archiv (screenshots and manuals)
altogether: a Xerox Alto simulator
Google Search on "Xerox Alto Workstations"

HCI Review of the Xerox Star

Historical Documents of the Star by David Curbow

Nicholas Negroponte

Dataland (Alan Kay in Bonn 2001)

In the early 70s Nicholas Negroponte and his group at MIT did some of the very best UI designs. (email with Alan Kay)

Dear Ben Davis (email from Kirsten Wagner)

Kirsten Wagner: Informations- und Wissensorganisation anhand räumlicher Ordnungsmodelle: Das Spatial Data-Management System der Architecture Machine Group als Fallbeispiel in Wolkenkuckucksheim

The Apple Online Museum

Apple Computer Inc. Records

• applefritter: Apple Lisa
• Folklore.org: Andy Hertzfeld took polaroids of the very early Lisa UI
• Erste Erfahrungen mit LISA von Gerhard Fischer, Hamburg, aus 65xx MICRO MAG Nr. 33, Oktober 1983
• Digibarn: Video of CHI 98
• Lisa Emulator Project
• Chapter 3.1.8 Apple Lisa

An Environment for Creating, Maintaining and Distributing Very Large Documentation Sets with Very Long Life Cycles

Publications by Walker, Janet H.

Janet H. Walker on Concordia (mail)

Current Projects: CLIM

TALIGENT, a joint-venture between IBM, Apple and Hewlett-Packard was founded in March 1992 with this precise problem in mind. The mantra went "object-orientation". After everything from pop-up menus to games started getting that epithet, the concept got renamed to "component software" and "document-centric computing". Taligent's idea was to produce an operating system that could enable programs to be built up of small, interchangeable parts.

Taligent - Software Patent Policy

Taligent, as an example, is a new, founded in 1992, small, starting with 170 employees -- we now have 350 employees and by the end of this year will have 450 employees -- innovative, high-tech, high-risk venture. We're going into an extremely competitive marketplace, we're going to have an object-oriented operating environment that will compete with Microsoft's offerings, clearly the dominant player in a lot of competition in the area.

Taligent to Become IBM Subsidiary (Apple Press Release December 19, 1995)

The Taligent transition into IBM is complete – Taligent, the former IBM subsidiary, has been officially dissolved.

David Curbow

OpenDoc by Luca Deri 1996

Apple “Legacy Services”: OpenDoc Developer Documentation

IBM: OpenDoc for free

Interview with David Curbow, a lead human interface designer for OpenDoc

Webtop

The Webtop for the Knowledge Worker (JavaOne ’97)

Java Technology Enterprise Solution

Don Gentner,Frank Ludolph. The Webtop for the KnowledgeWorker. Sun Microsystems,Inc. JavaOne 98

IBM, Lotus, Oracle and SUN announce plans for joint development of Java-based desktop specification

Udanax.com

Cosmicbook

Abora Hypertext System

The Future of Information (1997 by Ted Nelson)

Xanadu Secrets Become Udanax Open-Source

Xanadu report (24-Aug-99)

Last night, at the O'Reilly Open Source conference in Monterey, Ted Nelson and his team demonstrated and shipped Xanadu, the fabled hypertext system that inspired the World Wide Web. It was a remarkable and strange moment. …

Ted Nelson, Project Xanadu and xanalogical studies with a special focus on the incorporated copyright issues. Merz Akademie, 2002

Ted Nelson on PDF (email)

Ted Nelson on “Interface” (email)

Bibliography

abora.org - links

Squeak Smalltalk

Alan Kay lecture notes (11/2/98 at MIT)

Alan Kay joins HP Labs (Dec 2002)

e-mail correspondence with Alan

Bibliography

CLIM Specification
CLIM and the Web

by Ralf Möller:
User Interface Management Systems: The CLIM Perspective
CLIM Example Programs
Screen Shots from the CLIM Example Programs

Past Projects: Symbolics Document Examiner

Mike Boich, Bud Tribble and Andy Hertzfeld, all of whom played an important role in developing the revolutionary Macintosh user interface, will debut the first product to come out of their new firm, Eazel, this Tuesday at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Jose.

What will make a desktop Linux? Interface, interface, interface.

Eazel is developing Nautilus, GNOME's next-generation file manager. Nautilus is to the GNOME environment what the Finder is to the Mac and IE has become to Windows. It's good that Eazel, of all companies, is working on this, since it's staffed by many of the people who are responsible for the Mac's original human interface.

Google Search: "Andy Hertzfeld"

BeOpen Interview with Andy Hertzfeld of Eazel (June 15, 2000)

Instead of dumbing down or putting an updated Macintosh face on the Linux OS, Hertzfeld says the central theme of Eazel is to improve the three way relationship between man, machine and the network at large.

"Usability is about more than the graphic user interface," he says. "It's about building a continuous flow of knowledge that can explain to the user how the system and its various pieces are reconciled."

Screen Wars (Newsweek, Dec 11, 2000)

Bruce Horn's Recollections

Metadata-Findererweiterung von Bruce Horn. (MacGuardians, 10.Aug 2002)

Discussion on iFile (macnn, July 2002)

Bruce Horn on 1984, Today, and Beyond (MacTHEMES interview, Apr 2004)

Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution Symposion

• Doug, Eugene, Christina Engelbart, Brad, Craig, Jonathan Cheyer have their 1.0 release party 5-Sep-2006
• Web Montag Silicon Valley 2006-08-14

I feel that the connection, the flow, between people, information and tools need to become more liquid.

The whole point of having an interface is that we cannot directly access, manipulate or distribute information through the computer.
This is both a barrier and an opportunity.

About Mac OS X

Frode Hegland is working on a documentary Invisible Revolution - The Doug Engelbart Story

Tog on Apple

• OS X: A First Look
• The Evolution of the Mac Interface
• Apple Squandering the Advantage

The AskTog Bug House

Pliant Research is concerned with the mismatch between the rigidity of current computing technology and the richness of human lives and practices. We are exploring design stances that take advantage of digital hardware and systematic techniques, but avoid the limits of the formal approach that has dominated the design of digital systems. Our goal is to create pliant systems--flexible, resilient, and responsive--that everyone can use more effectively and comfortably, because they better fit our ways of dealing with our world.

The Web and UI (email)

SemanticWeb

Veltman, Kim H.: Augmented Books, Knowledge, and Culture. 2000

XML.com (archive to World Wide Web Journal)

Hey - where did Kai go? (Futuristic Design, Inc.)

MetaTools, MetaCreations, Meta...?