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Some friends and I worked on a project to develop the next killer application to follow Lotus 1-2-3 (A spread sheet on the new IBM PC under DOS). I was impressed with Ted Nelson's work on hypertext in 1965 and was convinced that it was the future of electronic documents. We used a hypertext application called FileVision on the new graphical user interface computing platform from Apple called Macintosh, which used much of the interface developed at Xerox PARC. We created a set of interactive maps with links to restaurants, ATMs (you had to search to find them in 1985), gas stations, tourist attractions, etc. called Mac Travel Guide, which was written up in several of the Mac magazines. This was 12 or more years before Travelocity and Google maps... About this site