Demystifying Java for Intranets: slide 6

Intranets: Open, heterogenous networks within organisations, carrying distributed hypertext

Project Xanadu, Ted Nelson 1960

Distributed hypertext over heterogenous networks

TCP/IP, Xerox PARC, 1970s

Transmission of data over unreliable networks of networks

HTML, Tim Berners-Lee, CERN, 1990

Distributed hypertext over heterogenous networks - much simpler than Xanadu

'Intranet', Sun Microsystems, 1995

Use of Internet technology for internal systems - coined to describe a concept already widespread