Enquire (software)
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Enquire (software) was an early hypertext system created by Tim Berners-Lee that served as a conceptual precursor to the World Wide Web.
Statements (48)
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| instanceOf |
hypertext system
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software → |
| accessModel |
single-user
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| comparedTo |
later World Wide Web, Enquire was more limited and local
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| conceptualPrecursorOf |
World Wide Web
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| countryOfOrigin |
Switzerland
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| creator |
Tim Berners-Lee
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| dataModel |
network of linked nodes
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| dataStorage |
files on CERN minicomputer system
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| designGoal |
allow users to browse relationships between pieces of information
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make it easy to add new information without global planning → |
| developer |
Tim Berners-Lee
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| developmentContext |
information management at CERN in the 1980s
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| documentationAuthor |
Tim Berners-Lee
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| field |
hypertext
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information management → |
| hasFeature |
ability to add new nodes and links incrementally
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bidirectional links between pages → hierarchical structure of linked notes → typed links between nodes → |
| hasNodeType |
concept
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document → person → project → |
| historicalSignificance |
demonstrated feasibility of linked information systems at CERN
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| inception |
1980
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| influencedBy |
hypertext concepts
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| inspired |
World Wide Web
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| inspiredBy |
book "Enquire Within Upon Everything"
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| institutionalAffiliation |
CERN
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| license |
proprietary
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| linkRepresents |
relationship between two nodes
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| locationOfCreation |
CERN
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| mainPurpose |
manage and link information about projects and people at CERN
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| nameDerivedFrom |
Enquire Within Upon Everything
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| networkSupport |
no global internet-based access
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| notableAs |
direct ancestor of Berners-Lee’s later web proposal
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early experiment in hypertext at CERN → |
| operatingSystem |
Norsk Data NORD-10
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Norsk Data NORD-100 → |
| originallyDocumentedIn |
Tim Berners-Lee’s 1989 World Wide Web proposal
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| platform |
CERN minicomputers
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| preceded |
WorldWideWeb (Nexus) browser-editor
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| programmingLanguage |
Pascal
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| status |
discontinued
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| usedFor |
documenting software projects
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tracking relationships between people, projects, and software modules → |
| userInterface |
text-based interface
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Referenced by (1)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Tim Berners-Lee
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