Chapt 14: Third-Generation Distributed Hypermeida Systems
14.3 First and Second Generation Hypermedia Systems
The First Generation Hypermedia Sytems
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Originally mainframe-based Focused primarily on text nodes
Used display technologies with little or no graphics capabilities
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e.g. NLS/Augment, FRESS, ZOG
The Second Generation Hypermedia Systems
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Began in the early 1980s
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Workstation-based Research-oriented
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Remarkably similar in concept to the first generation systems
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Support graphics and even animation nodes as well as fully-formatted
text nodes
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e.g. Neptune, Intermedia