In the 1968 FJCC demonstration, Engelbart showed how the
computer could be used to deal with everyday tasks. The majority
of the presentation centered aound him using the computer to
plan out a set of things which he had to do later. All of this
information was in a simple hypertext which contained many
different methods of organization, each appropriate to the task
at hand. For example, the list of things which Engelbart had to
do later was organized as a graphical map of the locations where
he would have to go, connected by the route he would take. On
the other hand, his shopping list was organized hierarchically
by category and he had the ability to easily expand or elide
sections of the heirarchy or move items between sections. Also,
documentation for the system and other similar text was
displayed and manipulated as text with inline links to other
places, in a mode evocative of the WWW hypertext style. Key to
Engelbart's fluid computer-human interaction was that the
interface was intimately linked with t