1969: NPL, Packet Switching and the Internet (application/pdf, 112 KB)

roger scantlebury says "early", but i think one source wrote february in a discussion about who was first, though: usa or europe ... pero no importa.

1989 march: information management, a proposal | thanks chris

1998 sept.: semantic web, a roadmap

2009 tim berners-lee found a new old name and calls it linked data. 1910 paul otlet & co may have gone in the same direction with "linked documents".

anyhow, there are steven newcomb and michel biezunski also talking and thinking for a long time about how to make information stick; how can someone/[something] who is pointed at know that he is pointed at ... | newcomb (audio/mpeg, 634 KB) , 2002

hytime, an iso standard since 1992.

today one can argue that to know that someone has pointed at somebody else describes the story of social networking tools best. it just seems to be that human to find out who was setting the pointer? who is this chap that found me? it's not about search, it's not about friendship it's about being found.