Tim Berners-Lee told me that he adopted the light blue highlighted links in Hyperties, citing our hypertext disk in his Spring 1989 manifesto for the Web(English)
I had been developing document handling systems at CERN, and I had also been toying with Hypercard. We had all buildings connected with Appletalk, and it was just conceivable that we could get something done with hypertext over the network.(English)