On: FeX: Forum Explorer – Rethinking how we interact w...

[jjtheblunt]

You could look up Prof Simon Kaplan's Conversation Builder effort at UIUC in 1989 and thereafter, for the earliest variant i know of. Mark Allender worked on it there, for instance.

[ventedfins → jjtheblunt]

that's so cool! i had previously thought that the first link in this line of work was in '99 with Donath's visualizing conversation https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/4/4/JCMC442/4584411