A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools
Eugene Eric Kim, Jon Erickson · 2008
It is only proper that such a manifesto begin with the story of Doug Engelbart. In the 1960s, Engelbart and his laboratory at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) invented the fundamental building blocks found in all of today's collaborative tools -everything from the data structures (hypertext) and user interfaces (windowing systems), to applications (groupware) and physical interfaces (the mouse).