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Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Harvey Lehtman <hlehtman@TBAPARTNERS.COM>
Subject: Re: Doug Engelbart (not Englebart!) and Augment
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Replying to Doug Yowza'a reply to Kim Ballard:
1. Get the name right! It's Engelbart, not Englebart.
2. I was in Engelbart's group at SRI for ten years beginning in 1969. NLS was the oNLine System to distinguish it from FLS, the oFfLine System, a way of entering compatible textual material via papertape(!) As more of us had access to terminals (on one of the first timesharing systems), FLS largely disappeared, but it served a useful role as the group was bootstrapping itself to its next level.
3. The Bootstrap Institute site that Doug Yowza cited, managed by Doug Engelbart and his daughter Christina, has good links to other material.
4. I urge you also to check out some of the original papers of the group which were reprinted in "Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: A Book of Readings" edited by Irene Greif (Morgan Kasufmann Publishers, 1988.)
5. An excellent transcription of a talk Doug gave at an ACM symposium held in Palo Alto in 1986 may be found in "A History of Personal Workstations" edited by Adele Goldberg (ACM Press, 1988.)
6. The host of this list, David Bennahum, interviewed Doug for his MEME list. I don't have a citation handy for that, but I believe it is available on the web. (URL, David?)
6. The thirty year anniversary of Doug and group's famous demo at the Fall Joint Conference will be commemorated this week at Stanford. The material will be webcast. Check out:
Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution:
Stanford Symposium
Wednesday, December 9, 1998
http://unrev.stanford.edu
Harvey Lehtman
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>Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
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>On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Kim Ballard wrote:
>
>>I'm working on an article and I need some information on Doug Engbart's work at Stanford on the hypertext based oN Line System.
>
>If you're writing an article, I'd like to know how he came up with that terrible acronym. It really must have stood for something else.
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>>Can anyone direct me to some references of information on the Web concerning his work?
>
>http://www.bootstrap.org/
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>-- Doug
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>______________________________________________________________________
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Subject: Re: Doug Engelbart (not Englebart!) and Augment
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______________________________________________________________________
Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
Replying to Doug Yowza'a reply to Kim Ballard:
1. Get the name right! It's Engelbart, not Englebart.
2. I was in Engelbart's group at SRI for ten years beginning in 1969. NLS was the oNLine System to distinguish it from FLS, the oFfLine System, a way of entering compatible textual material via papertape(!) As more of us had access to terminals (on one of the first timesharing systems), FLS largely disappeared, but it served a useful role as the group was bootstrapping itself to its next level.
3. The Bootstrap Institute site that Doug Yowza cited, managed by Doug Engelbart and his daughter Christina, has good links to other material.
4. I urge you also to check out some of the original papers of the group which were reprinted in "Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: A Book of Readings" edited by Irene Greif (Morgan Kasufmann Publishers, 1988.)
5. An excellent transcription of a talk Doug gave at an ACM symposium held in Palo Alto in 1986 may be found in "A History of Personal Workstations" edited by Adele Goldberg (ACM Press, 1988.)
6. The host of this list, David Bennahum, interviewed Doug for his MEME list. I don't have a citation handy for that, but I believe it is available on the web. (URL, David?)
6. The thirty year anniversary of Doug and group's famous demo at the Fall Joint Conference will be commemorated this week at Stanford. The material will be webcast. Check out:
Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution:
Stanford Symposium
Wednesday, December 9, 1998
http://unrev.stanford.edu
Harvey Lehtman
>______________________________________________________________________
>Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
>
>
>On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Kim Ballard wrote:
>
>>I'm working on an article and I need some information on Doug Engbart's work at Stanford on the hypertext based oN Line System.
>
>If you're writing an article, I'd like to know how he came up with that terrible acronym. It really must have stood for something else.
>
>>Can anyone direct me to some references of information on the Web concerning his work?
>
>http://www.bootstrap.org/
>
>-- Doug
>
>______________________________________________________________________
>
