MEMEX - An early example of HTML

An exerpt that is particularily poignant:

The same dynamics of "concept editing" that occurred with TBL's Web and in the reaction to my own Memex project is actually fairly common in the software business. (I will, however, spare you by not documenting other obvious examples.) Typically, those who first work on an idea or concept will see that it has a very wide scope of application, however, they are almost always forced to focus on one or another specific, limited scopes in order to present their idea in a relevant fashion to potential adopters who have specific issues addressed by the innovation. Often, in the process of this focused positioning to convince early-adopters to accept an idea or process, much of the full richness of the vision is lost or put aside. The cost of acceptance is thus often the loss of very important, even essential, elements of the vision. Sometimes, the loss is permanent and only the original thinker knows what paths were not traveled... Sometimes, the loss is temporary as others eventually re-discover the lost facets or the original visionaries are able to eventually find a means to get others to understand more of the full vision. This re-discovery of the original vision's depth and breadth is hopefully what we see happening on the Web today as Blogging, Wikis and other read/write tools resurrect the original idea of the read/write Web.