Ted Nelson invents the word hypertext. Doug Engelbart gives a demo of NLS at FJCC, a part of the Augment project, started in 1962.
Links can be across machines.
A team at MIT, headed by Andrew Lippman, develops the Aspen Movie Map, the first true example of a multimedia application including a videodisk. Created at the MIT Architecture Machine Group, which later becomes the Media Lab. 1979 Ted Nelson begins Xanadu project, which is bought by Autodesk in 1988 and subsequently dropped four years later. Xanadu FAQ . It's easy to create a different link database for different purposes while preserving the original document.