But where did it all come from?

And I've caught three people Vannevar Bush, Doug Englebart and Tim Berners Lee.

So let's just run through these guys.

This is Vannevar Bush.

Vannevar Bush was the US government's chief scientific adviser during the war, and in 1945 he published an article in a magazine called Atlantic Monthly.

And the doctor was called, as we may think.

And what Vannevar Bush was saying was, The way we use information is broken.

We we don't work in terms of libraries and catalog systems and so forth.

The being worth my association with one item in its thought.

It snaps instantly to the next item on the waist information structure.

This totally incapable of keeping up with this process.

And so he suggested a machine, and he called it the Meme X.

And the main makes would link information one piece of information to a related piece of information and so forth.

Now this was in 1945.

A computer in those days was something that Secret Service is just to use for code breaking, and it was absolutely, you know, nobody knew anything about it.

So this was before the computer was invented and he proposed this machine called the Man Makes, and he had a platform where you linked information to other information.

And then you could call it up.

It will.

So spitting forward.

One of the guys who read this out ago was a guy called Dog Englebart when he was a U S Air Force officer and he was reading in the library in the Far East.

But he was so inspired by this article, it kind of directed the rest of his life.

And by the mid sixties, he was able to put this into action.

When he worked at the Stanford Research Lab in California, he built a system.

The system was designed to augment human intelligence.

It was called on a premonition of today's world of cloud computing and Softwares, or service.

The system was called N L s for online system, and this is Doug Englebart.

It was giving a presentation at the fall joint computer conference in 1968.

What is sure it's on a stage like this.

And he demonstrated this system.

He had his head make like I've got and he wants this system and you can see he is working between documents and graphics and so forth.

And he's driving at all with this, said this platform here with a five finger keyboard and the world's first computer, most which he specially designed in order to do this system.

So this is where the most came from as well.

So it's with Doug Englebart.

The trouble with Doug Engelbart system was the computers in those days cost several £1,000,000.

So for a personal computer, you know, a few £1,000,000 of like having a personal jet plane, it wasn't really very practical, but spin on to the eighties when personal computers did arrive.

Then there was room for this kind of system on personal computers, and my company, Owl built a system called Gate for the Apple Macintosh on We delivered the world's first hypertext system, and this began to get a head of steam.

Apple introduced the thing called hyper card at the middle bit of Foster Motor that had a 12 page supplement in The Wall Street Journal.

The day it launched.

The magazine started the Covenant Byte magazine Communication of the CME of special issues covering hypertext.

We developed a PC version of this product as well as Mike Untouched Fashion and our PC version became quite mature.

These are some examples off the system in action.

The early eighties you were able to deliver documents were able to do it over networks.

We developed a system such that it had a markup language based on HTML.

We called HTML hypertext markup language on the system was capable of doing very, very large documentation systems over computer networks.

So I do this system to a trade show in Versailles, near Paris, in late November 1990.

And I was approached by a nice young man called Tim Berners Lee, who say that you in Richer said Yeah, and he said, I need to talk to you And he told me about his proposed system called the World Wide Web.

And I thought, Well, that's kind of pretentious name, especially the whole system right now at his computer in his office.

But he was completely convinced that his World Wide Web would take over the world.

One day, Andi tried to persuade me to write the browser for it because his system didn't have any graphics or foreign salio or anything.

It was just just plain text.

And I thought, Well, you know, interesting but guy from sales and he's not gonna do this so we we didn't do it in the next couple of years.

The hypertext community didn't recognize them either.

In 1992 people was rejected for the hypertext conference in 1993 there was a table at the conference in Seattle, and a guy called Marc Andreessen was demonstrating his little browser for the World Wide Web.

And I saw and I thought, Yep, that's it.

On the very next year in 1984 we had the conference here in Edinburgh, and I had no opposition in having Tim Berners Lee as the keynote speaker.

So that puts me in pretty illustrious company with a guy called Deca Raw who was a decorated and turned down the Beatles.

There's a guy called Gotta Killed All who Went flying his plane from IBM came looking for an operating system for the IBM PC Onda.

He wasn't there, so they went back to see Bill Gates on the 12 publishers who turned down J.

K rollings highly protected, I guess.

On the other hand, the market reason.

Who wrote the world's first browser for the World Wide Web?

And according to Fortune magazine, he's worth $700 million but is he happy?