This remains my favourite conference, and it is fun to see the very first proceedings.
While there are many fun papers here, the first systems paper, KMS, deserves special attention. KMS was one of the very first hypermedia systems to take advantage of the power of networked graphical workstations. It was very fast (less than 0.25 s to move from frame to frame), and while it did not use the chording keyboard championed by Engelbart, it used context aware button combinations of the three buttoned mouse for much the same purpose to enable very efficient use by experienced users (and with the cursor showing the available options for the less well trained). It was a fast, WYSIWYG, collaborative hypermedia authoring system, and it was made before GUIs became standardised, leaving its creators free to make the system as they wanted. It had a scripting language, so users to extend it.
At my university, we still had a running installation of KMS into the late nineties. It was interesting to use, and it was always fun to expose students to this radically different graphical user interface, and vision of what hypermedia might have been.
Unfortunately, it is not easy to find videos of the system in action.
While there are many fun papers here, the first systems paper, KMS, deserves special attention. KMS was one of the very first hypermedia systems to take advantage of the power of networked graphical workstations. It was very fast (less than 0.25 s to move from frame to frame), and while it did not use the chording keyboard championed by Engelbart, it used context aware button combinations of the three buttoned mouse for much the same purpose to enable very efficient use by experienced users (and with the cursor showing the available options for the less well trained). It was a fast, WYSIWYG, collaborative hypermedia authoring system, and it was made before GUIs became standardised, leaving its creators free to make the system as they wanted. It had a scripting language, so users to extend it.
At my university, we still had a running installation of KMS into the late nineties. It was interesting to use, and it was always fun to expose students to this radically different graphical user interface, and vision of what hypermedia might have been.
Unfortunately, it is not easy to find videos of the system in action.