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Douglas Engelbart's HyperScope 1.0 Launched

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the father-of-us-all dept.

ReadWriteWeb writes, "HyperScope 1.0 is a new Web app based on Douglas Engelbart's 1968 NLS/Augment (oNLine System). Engelbart and team have been working on Hyperscope since March of this year in a project funded by the National Science Foundation. Its aim is to rebuild portions of Engelbart's NLS, on the Web, using current Web technologies such as Ajax and DHTML. In effect it gives an advanced browsing experience, including classic hypertext features like indirect links and transclusions of remote pieces of other documents. HyperScope has been completely built with open source JavaScript toolkit Dojo — meaning that everything is done on the client-side."

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  1. Re:is this really a good idea? by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 5, Interesting
    If it takes you 10x longer to design the content and the person viewing the page can find what they want 10x faster then is it really a net gain?
    Maybe it won't make sense if only a single person is viewing it, but with hundreds, the gain could be very useful. Not just to the readers, but the writer too - if 100 people view the doc and 75% of them are able to understand it better thanks to this, that's much less questions the writer will have to waste time answering.
  2. Actual link by generic-man · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actual site: http://hyperscope.org/

    Blog blog blog blog blog, blog blogpost blog blog...

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    For more information, click here.
  3. AHA! caution: massive insight inside by Desolator144 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I figured out how to make this super popular! With all these capabilities, they should just take that tiny extra step and have disaster scenarios like a monster slowly eating the info on the page and you have to stop him or a black hole at the bottom of the page sucking up all the text and scrolling you down faster and faster as it grows. That would be cool and would really spice up boring web documents. I think it would even encourage kids to read long research papers more :-)

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    now stop reading and go play Dance Dance Revolution!
  4. Now I'll never get to sleep by MarkusQ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great, now I'll never get to sleep.

    First FreeDos 1.0, and now this. If I go to bed now, I'm sure to miss the story I'm really waiting for; just think of it, Babbage's Analytical Engine, completed at last! Will it work the way he thought?

    The suspense is killing me.

    --MarkusQ