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NLS, or the "oNLine System", was a revolutionary collaboration system designed by DougEngelbart and his team in the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) during the 1960s and 1970s. NLS was the first to employ the practical use of hyperlinked documents (hyperdocs), the mouse (co-invented by Engelbart and colleague Bill English), raster-scan video monitors, information organized by relevance, screen windowing, computer presentation, and other modern computer concepts. The ARC team used NLS to collaborate in ways that are just now becoming available with today's Web 2.0 social networking software.    (GY)

NLS is well known as being used in an infamous 1968_Demo. Work continued on NLS (which was later renamed Augment) through the late 1980s when the project was terminated. Most people are not aware that DougEngelbart continues to use the NLS-Augment system to this day. His system was the last known NLS-Augment system in the world still in use (until this project was started).    (JI)

The goal of the NLS-Augment Restoration project is to preserve NLS for future generations. Preserving NLS includes the source code and binaries, as well as related documentation, videos, schematics, and specialized hardware created for NLS. We want people to be able to run the system, study the source code, understand the innovation within the system, read and listen to the stories, and continue to build on many of the great ideas that NLS includes.    (GZ)

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The goal of the NLS-Augment Restoration project is to preserve NLS for future generations. Preserving NLS includes the source code and binaries, as well as related documentation, videos, schematics, and specialized hardware created for NLS.    (7V)

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