[mapserver-users] Patent Challenge

[Andrew Hallam]

Chris,

This might be just trivia.

I picked up a copy of Mapping Websites: Digital Media Design (site maps, 
not map sites) last week.

<http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=2880464641>

In Chapter 3 it contains screen shots of an application called NoteCards 
developed by Xerox PARC. The authors consider it one of the earliest 
hypertext systems and a predecessor to Apple's HyperCard. The images in the 
book are from a presentation at Hypertext '87 and they show map images 
being displayed as the result of selecting a hyperlink.

The researchers giving the paper "Hypertext Habitats: Experience of Writers 
in NoteCards" were: Randall H. Trigg and Peggy M. Irish. Additional 
developers were Frank Halasz and Tom Moran.

Regards
Andrew Hallam

Digital Earth Pty Ltd
http://www.digitalearth.com.au