ABSTRACT
In the late 1970s, computer technology started to contribute greatly to the amount of available knowledge being produced through computer products and processes. Doug Engelbart’s Augment (“augmenting human intelligence”) introduced in 1978 was an early groupware or hypertext application, which interfaced with other applications and systems. Rob Acksyn and Don McCracken’s Knowledge Management System (KMS), an open distributed hypermedia tool, predates the Internet by a decade, were two such examples.
