Douglas Engelbart [5] expanded the concept of multimodality on one same support and created a
collaborative workspace, the oN-Line System (NLS), in the 1960s. The NLS can be considered the first
collaboration system in a digital environment, having links and a peripheral tool – the mouse – to point
out the wishes of the subject interacting with the machine, as well as the window-like screens to organize
information according to its importance in creating the content. Engelbart [5], working at Air Force
Office of Scientific Research, wrote a report to the Director of Information Sciences in 1962, called
“Augmenting human intellect: a conceptual framework” [3]. On the document, Engelbart claims that
computers augment comprehension due to its complex organization format of information and thought.
Also, Engelbart highlights the aspect of discontinuity in relation to the traditional forms of access to
knowledge.