Microcosm (hypermedia system) explained

Microcosm was a hypermedia system, originally developed in 1988 by the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, with a small team of researchers in the Computer Science group: Wendy Hall, Andrew Fountain, Hugh Davis and Ian Heath.^{[1] [2]} The system pre-dates the web and builds on early hypermedia systems, such as Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu and work of Douglas Engelbart. And like Intermedia or Hyper-G, which were other hypermedia systems created around the same time, Microcosm stores links between documents in a separate database.^[3]

See also

• Xanadu
• Intermedia
• Hyper-G (or HyperWave)

External links

• Microcosm page from W3C Historical Archives
• Microcosm: an open hypermedia system (1992): Hugh Davis's video demonstration of Microcosm hypermedia features from University of Southampton
• Microcosm in Vision and Reality of Hypertext and Graphical User Interfaces

Notes and References

1. Web site: Architectural Component of Hypertext Systems. Jakob Nielsen. 1 January 1995. 21 January 2013.
2. MICROCOSM: an open model for hypermedia with dynamic linking. Fountain. Andrew. Hall. Wendy. Wendy_Hall. Heath. Ian. Davis. Hugh. 1990. Cambridge University Press. 298–311.
3. Book: Gillies . James . Cailliau . Robert . Robert_Cailliau . How the Web was Born . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-286207-5 . 129.