At 8:44 am 6/3/96, Rzepa, Henry wrote:
>>Given that I've not heard of Hyper-G, it can't be famous :-)
>
>Well, I noticed them around 18 months ago (and put a link
>into our home pages for them).
Hyper-G has been around almost as long as the Web. Florian Schnabel (one of
the original people involved along with Frank Kappe) was a member of the
RARE (now TERENA) Information Services and User Support Working Group. (As
was Tim Berners-Lee (WWW)). Florian demonstrated Hyper-G early on and we
were very excited about it for several reasons: the two-way links and the
fact that Hyper-G has always approached things from the information
provider and maintainer's point of view. I tried in vain to persuade them
to put Hyper-G in the public domain early on and to develop clients for PCs
and Macs. They wanted to get things "right" - so several years later - WWW
is very widespread and well known whereas Hyper-G is not. It is still very
well worth looking at. Note that I don't have an real practical experience
of it - but Henry does. I'm just giving some history!
-- Jill
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