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ENQUIRE was an early project (in the second half of 1980) of Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, Order of Merit, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society of Arts is an English people computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web....
, who went on to create the World Wide Web
World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a very large set of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain writing, s, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks....
 in 1989. ENQUIRE had some of the same ideas as the Web and the Semantic Web
Semantic Web

The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content....
 but was different in several important ways, one of them that it was not supposed to be released to the general public. ENQUIRE was written in the PASCAL programming language and implemented on a Norsk Data
Norsk Data

Norsk Data was a computer manufacturer located in Oslo, Norway. Existing from 1967 to 1992, it had its most active period in the years from the early 1970s to the late 1980s....
 machine.

According to Berners-Lee (2000), the name was inspired by a book entitled Enquire Within Upon Everything
Enquire Within Upon Everything

Enquire Within Upon Everything was a how-to book for household, first published in 1856 by Houlston and Sons of Paternoster Square in London, and then continuously reprinted in many new and updated editions as additional information and articles were added....
.

Rather than a web browser
Web browser

A Web browser is a application software which enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music, games and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network....
, ENQUIRE was closer to a wiki
Wiki

A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content , using a simplified markup language....
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ENQUIRE was an early project (in the second half of 1980) of Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, Order of Merit, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society of Arts is an English people computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web....
, who went on to create the World Wide Web
World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a very large set of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain writing, s, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks....
 in 1989. ENQUIRE had some of the same ideas as the Web and the Semantic Web
Semantic Web

The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content....
 but was different in several important ways, one of them that it was not supposed to be released to the general public. ENQUIRE was written in the PASCAL programming language and implemented on a Norsk Data
Norsk Data

Norsk Data was a computer manufacturer located in Oslo, Norway. Existing from 1967 to 1992, it had its most active period in the years from the early 1970s to the late 1980s....
 machine.

According to Berners-Lee (2000), the name was inspired by a book entitled Enquire Within Upon Everything
Enquire Within Upon Everything

Enquire Within Upon Everything was a how-to book for household, first published in 1856 by Houlston and Sons of Paternoster Square in London, and then continuously reprinted in many new and updated editions as additional information and articles were added....
.

Rather than a web browser
Web browser

A Web browser is a application software which enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music, games and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network....
, ENQUIRE was closer to a wiki
Wiki

A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content , using a simplified markup language....
:
  • database
    Database

    A database is a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system. The structure is achieved by organizing the data according to a database model....
    , though a closed system (all of the data could be taken as a workable whole)
  • bidirectional hyperlinks (in Wikipedia
    Wikipedia

    Wikipedia is a Free content, multilingualism encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit organization Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki and encyclopedia....
     and MediaWiki
    MediaWiki

    MediaWiki is a World Wide Web wiki software application used by all projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, all wikis hosted by Wikia, and many other wikis, including some of the largest and most popular ones....
    , this is the What links here feature). This bidirectionality allows ideas, notes, etc. to link to each other without the author being aware of this. In a way, they (or, at least, their relationships) get a life on their own.
  • direct editing from the server (like wikis and CMS
    CMS

    CMS may refer to:...
    /blog
    Blog

    A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video....
    s)
  • ease of compositing, particularly when it comes to hyperlink
    Hyperlink

    In computing, a hyperlink, usually shortened to link, is a directly followable reference within a hypertext document.The area from which the hyperlink can be activated is called its anchor; its target is what the link points to, which may be another location within the same page or document, another page or document, or a...
    ing.


See also

  • Project Xanadu
    Project Xanadu

    Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. Administrators of Project Xanadu now contrast it with both paper and the World Wide Web, saying "Today's popular software simulates paper....
  • NLS (computer system)
    NLS (computer system)

    NLS, or the "oN-Line System", was a revolutionary computer collaboration system designed by Douglas Engelbart and the researchers at the Augmentation Research Center at the Stanford Research Institute during the 1960s....


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