NLS / Augment

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started: 1968
by: Douglas Engelbart, SRI Augmentation Research Center
homepage: https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/110/
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLS_(computer_system)

Doug Engelbart's NLS — the system demoed at "The Mother of All Demos" (1968): hypertext, multi-user collaboration, shared screen, mouse. Commercialized as Augment by Tymshare; conceptually decades ahead of its time.

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