Harri K. Hiltunen's answer: What they wanted, and how it went:
The sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration
1. Vannevar Bush invented the Memex crowd thinking desktop environment with redundancy-merging hypertext wiki 1939–1945.
He had designed analog computers and founded the Manhatta...
Visionaries:
Vannevar Bush
Douglas Engelbart
Alan Kay
Ted Nelson
Bret Victor