@EileenKCarpenter wow, did you know Lady Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage personally?
@rphlegm
Lol, no. My husband actually got this.
Before there was a world wide web or Wikipedia, NeXT was training college professors with no programming experience to create educational software.
@rphlegm
They could use hyperlinks to let students learn more about a topic, and widgets that let the professor insert functions like buttons and sliders into the program. They had read-write 300 MB “floptical” discs that could store far more info than the magnetic media in use at the time.
Unfortunately, the hardware would have been a big investment for his institution, with little guarantee other professors would use it.
@EileenKCarpenter Carnegie Mellon University? I spent some time at the Software Engineering Institute there; back in the days when HTML was a new idea.