[noneoftheabove]

No. Incorrect. There was a precursor that had the idea Of notebook but didn’t call it that. By your logic Wolfram invented symbolic computation, Computational complexity and many other things. Let’s Not go down that route please.

[rsecora]

Mathcad has the notebook metaphor (calculations embedded in live formatted documents) by 1986. Mathcad predates Mathematica by 1 year. [1]

[1] Mathcad 2.0 Ad from 1987, the oldest I have found in 10 min. https://books.google.es/books?id=sc4TnHAYBSUC&pg=PA42

[noneoftheabove]

Thanks for looking into it. Yes this is correct. Knowing what I hear about wolfram, even if there is a record in history wolfram claims He is the first.

[mr_mitm]

I may have been incorrect because it's hard to know about everything and I have no issue to stand corrected, but please do not attack my logic by building strawmen. You could have simply stated the name of that predecessor, ideally with a link.

The basis my comment for this was this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22278637

Unfortunately the Atlantic article is now paywalled.

[kencausey]

Archive from 20220805:

https://archive.is/4l509

[noneoftheabove]

Don’t trust the PR coming out of Wolfram. His wiki entry was paid for, his puppets on the net do the rest propogating disinformation And misinformation. He has connection to writers from New York Times and others.