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Microcosm (hypermedia system)

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. The system pre-dates the web and builds on early hypermedia systems, such as Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu and work of Douglas Engelbart. Like Intermedia or Hyper-G, which were other hypermedia systems created around the same time, Microcosm stores links between documents in a separate database.

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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.12 The system pre-dates the web and builds on early hypermedia systems, such as Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu and work of Douglas Engelbart. 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

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