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March 04, 2006
Hyperscope Project
source via blackrimglasses.com
A little taste of computer history... the Hyperscope project.
Brad Neuberg writes of his present experience as one of the researchers invited to work on the Hyperscope project.
This interesting project revisits and pays homage to the work of Douglas Englebart... who we can thank for inventing the computer mouse and pioneering the field of human computer interaction, amongst many other accomplishments.
A snippet:
Hyperscope is a National Science Foundation funded project to rebuild portions of Douglas Engelbart's groundbreaking NLS system on the web.In NLS (or Augment, as it was later renamed), a small command bar at the top of the screen could accept commands; below this command bar was the document that was being worked on. Users would type commands into the command bar, something like the command-line of a DOS or Unix terminal, and would use the mouse to click on portions of the document to interact with and operate on.
Posted by lrw at March 4, 2006 11:30 PM
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