Douglas Engelbart

In the early 1960s Douglas Engelbart, a computer programmer at Stanford University, developed a system with a number of hypertext features. He called his system Augment, which was an office automation project that contained a number of hypermedia concepts, including advanced workgroup features that provided the ability to share journals and documents. Features such as these are now commonly associated with more recently developed tools like Lotus Notes.

Engelbart, influenced by Bush's article, believed that hypertext elements would assist and support human thinking by using associative links and browsing. Elgelbart envisioned that his system would store information in a sophisticated hierarchical structure allowing non-hierarchical branching.