The Interactive Encyclopedia System, or TIES, was a hypertext system developed at the University of Maryland, College Park by Ben Shneiderman in 1983. The earliest versions of TIES ran in DOS text mode, using the cursor arrow keys for navigating through information.

The TIES program has evolved into the HyperTies commercial product, sold by the Cognetics Corporation. HyperTies has a small feature set and has touch-screen support which makes it optimal for public displays and information kiosks. As for navigation types, only reference links are supported, which can be either text or graphics. The mouse pointer also highlights anchors when passing over them.

External links

• Hypertext Research: The Development of HyperTIES
• Don Hopkins' Web Site - HyperTIES Hypermedia Browser and Emacs Authoring Tool
• Don Hopkins' Web Site - Hyperties Workstation Browser paper

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