Did you know that the first major public demonstration of "hypertext" was at a museum exhibition? (1/6)

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In 1970, @TheJewishMuseum featured a show called "Software". It was curated by Jack Burnham. (2/6)

Visitors to "Software" could interact with Labyrinth, an on-line catalog for the show that operated off a PDP-8 minicomputer (3/6)

Labyrinth was designed by Theodor Nelson (left) who, in 1965, proposed the idea of "hypertext" (4/6)

Hypertext, of course, is the basis of the World Wide Web. Labyrinth was one of the first opportunities for an average person to experiment with it. (5/6)

Nelson would go on to write the classic book(s) "Computer Lib/Dream Machines" (6/6)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Lib/Dream_Machines