WHAT IS MULTIMEDIA/HYPERMEDIA?
In Vannevar Bush’s famous article entitled “As we may think” published in the July 1945 issue of Atlantic Monthly, he projected that “information overload” would be a serious problem. It would be increasingly difficult for one to keep up with the latest knowledge in any given field. He then described his vision of a device called “Memex,” an electronic disk that could access any text of linking files within seconds. Although Memex was never actually developed, the foundation for a system now known as hypertext was laid. Bush’s idea inspired two people about 20 years later — Douglas C. Englebart of the Stanford Research Institute and Ted Nelson of Xanadu. In the 1960s Nelson coined the word “hypertext,” which he describes as a non-sequential reading and writing that links different nodes of the text. Various experiments on the development of hypertext applications and systems took place in the following decade, followed by the introduction of a few commercial products and tools, such a
