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:''This article is about the computer technology. See [[HES (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''

The '''Hypertext Editing System''', or '''HES''', was an early [[hypertext]] research project conducted at [[Brown University]] in [[1967]] by [[Andries van Dam]], [[Ted Nelson]], and several Brown students. HES was a pioneering hypertext system that organized data into two main types: links and branching text. The branching text could automatically be arranged into menus and a point within a given area could also have an assigned name, called a label, and be accessed later by that name from the screen.

[[Image:HypertextEditingSystemConsoleBrownUniv1969.jpg|thumb|right|Hypertext Editing System (HES) IBM 2250 Display console – Brown University 1969]]

HES ran on an IBM [[System/360]]/50 [[mainframe computer]], which was inefficient for the task of running such a revolutionary system. Although HES pioneered many modern hypertext concepts, its emphasis was on text formatting and printing. HES research was funded by [[International Business Machines|IBM]] but the program was stopped around [[1969]]. The program was used by [[NASA]]'s Houston Manned Spacecraft Center for documentation on the [[Apollo program|Apollo]] space program (van Dam, 1988). HES was discontinued and replaced by the [[FRESS]] (File Retrieval and Editing System) project.

== Hypertext Editing System Report (Carmody ''et al.'' 1969) quotes ==

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== References ==

*Carmody, Steven; Gross, Walter; Nelson, Theodor H.; Rice, David; van Dam, Andries ([[1969]], April) ''A Hypertext Editing System for the /360'', Center for Computer & Information Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, File Number HES360-0, Form AVD-6903-0, pages 26–27

*van Dam, Andries. ([[1988]], July). [http://www.cs.brown.edu/memex/HT_87_Keynote_Address.html Hypertext '87 keynote address]. ''[[Communications of the ACM]]'', 31, 887–895.

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