THE MAGIC BROWSER

The "Magic Browser" was a very small object-oriented HTML multimedia document authoring and display tool for Microsoft Windows. The magicbrowser.exe file was around 289 Megabytes in size - leaving over 1 MB remaining for the storage of a multimedia document on a Floppy Disk... This is a screenshot from "The HNS Browser", 1986 - created on a Compaq Portable PC coded in a version of Basic. It was a "concept demonstrator". The concepts and ideas included: (i) a simple graphical schema of the human nervous system derived from an analysis of the system - as a map/blueprint composed of the fewest key elements representing/capturing the essence of a system or domain - in this case the human nervous system - as simple graphical symbols, each one a "category" - effectively encapsulating detail; (ii) "browsers" as graphical interfaces (GUIs) for parsing, browsing and the selection of elements of interest (here, with a mouse cursor) for discovery; (iii) "active and interactive" - active element-..

Also known as: Magic Browser

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