

The tabbed interface approach was then followed by the Internet Explorer shell NetCaptor in 1997.

That same year, a text editor called UltraEdit also appeared with a modern multi-row tabbed interface. įour years later, in 1994, BookLink Technologies featured tabbed windows in its InternetWorks browser. The first "web" browser came out later in 1990, and the term "World Wide Web" was not invented until 1990. HyperTIES was a " hypermedia" browser, a term first used by Ted Nelson in 1965. Don Hopkins developed and released several versions of tabbed window frames for the NeWS window system as free software, which the window manager applied to all NeWS applications, and enabled users to drag the tabs around to any edge of the window. HyperTIES also supported pie menus for managing windows and browsing hypermedia documents with PostScript applets. It was used to develop an authoring tool for the Ben Shneiderman's HyperTIES browser (the NeWS workstation version of The Interactive Encyclopedia System), in 1988. The NeWS version of UniPress's Gosling Emacs text editor was the first commercially available product to pioneer the use of multiple tabbed windows in 1988.

HyperTIES browser and Gosling Emacs authoring tool with pie menus on the NeWS window system
