From the "The Electronic Labyrinth"
which is an excellent resource for anyone interested in hypertext. Here is a sample.
Time Line
367 --
Festal Epistle of St Athanasius
delivered
868 --
The Diamond Sutra
printed
900 --
The Lindisfarne Gospels
illuminated (circa)
1440 --
The Gutenberg Bible
published
1590 -- Spenser's
The Faerie Queene
published
1603 -- Klesheim's
Album Amicorum
authoring begins
1611 --
King James Version of the Holy Bible
published
1740 -- Richardson's
Pamela
published
1760 -- Sterne's
Tristram Shandy
published
1787 --
Original Letters from the Archives of the Paston Family
,
the first English facsimile book published
1790 -- Blake's
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
illuminated
1854 -- Dickens'
Hard Times
published
1892 -- Kelmscott Press edition of Morris'
News From Nowhere
1922 -- Eliot's
"The Waste Land"
published
1925 -- Freud's
"A Note Upon The Mystic Writing Pad"
published
1939 -- Joyce's
Finnegans Wake
published
1945 --
Bush's
"As We May Think" published
1959 -- Robbe-Grillet's
Dans le labyrinthe
published
1962 -- Nabokov's
Pale Fire
published
1963 -- Saporta's
Composition #1
published
1963 --
Engelbart
publishes "A Conceptual Framework"
1966 -- Cortázar's
Hopscotch
published
1967 -- Barth's
"Literature of Exhaustion"
published
1970 -- Ballard's
The Atrocity Exhibition
published
1981 --
Nelson's
Literary Machines
published
1983 -- Trigg completes the first hypertext PhD at U of Maryland
1987 -- Conklin's "Hypertext: An Introduction and Survey" published
1988 -- Pavic's
Dictionary of the Khazars
published
1989 -- Joyce's
Afternoon
published