This article presents a timeline of hypertext technology, including "hypermedia" and related human–computer interaction projects and developments from ancient times and up to the present day. The term hypertext is credited to the author and philosopher Ted Nelson.

See also Graphical user interface, Multimedia; also Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine's Mundaneum, a massively cross-referenced card index system established in 1910.

700 BCE–600 CE

700 BCE–300 CE

• Ramayana

300 BCE–400 CE

• Mahabharata

300–600 CE

• Talmud

1930s

1939

• James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake"

1940s

1941

• Jorge Luis Borges' "The Garden of Forking Paths"

1945

• Memex (concept by Vannevar Bush)

1960s

1960

• Project Xanadu (concept)

1962

• Marshall McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy uses the term surfing

1967

• Hypertext Editing System (HES) by Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson at Brown University

1968

• FRESS (File Retrieval and Editing System, successor to HES)

• NLS (oN-Line System)

1970s

1972

• ZOG

1973

• Xerox Alto desktop

1976

• PROMIS

1978

• Aspen Movie Map

1979

• PERQ

1980s

1980

• ENQUIRE (not released)

1981

• Electronic Document System (EDS, aka Document Presentation System)

• Kussmaul Encyclopedia

• Xerox Star desktop

1982

• Guide

1983

• Knowledge Management System (KMS, successor to ZOG)

• TIES (The Interactive Encyclopedia System, later HyperTies)

1984

• NoteCards

1985

• Intermedia (successor to FRESS and EDS)

• Symbolics Document Examiner (Symbolics workstations)

• Grolier Academic American Encyclopedia CD-ROM Edition

1986

• Texinfo

• TextNet (a network-based approach to text handling)

• Neptune (a hypertext system for CAD applications)

1987

• Macromedia Authorware

• Canon Cat ("Leap" function, interface)

• HyperCard

• Knowledge Navigator (concept described by former Apple Computer CEO John Sculley in his book Odyssey)

• Storyspace

1988

• Microcosm (hypermedia system) (University of Southampton)

1989

• Macromedia Director

• Information Management: a proposal, Tim Berners-Lee, CERN

1990s

1990

• DynaText

• World Wide Web

• Hyperland (BBC documentary written by Douglas Adams)

• ToolBook

• HyTelnet

• WinHelp

1991

• Gopher

• AmigaGuide

1995

• Wiki

1996

• Hyperwire (Kinetix)

1998

• Everything2

• XML

1999

• RSS

2000s

2001

• Wikipedia

2005

• Atom (web standard)

2014

• OpenXanadu, an implementation of Project Xanadu

2019

• Gemini, a lightweight complement to the Web

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