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Cognetics Corporation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ18636287 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cognetics Corporation was founded in 1983.

History

Cognetics commercialised The Interactive Encyclopedia System, as HyperTIES. HyperTIES was a forerunner of the World Wide Web, and one of the first commercial hypertext systems.

Cognetics developed the 1986 text adventure game Amnesia for the PC, Apple II and Commodore 64.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Cognetics Corporation” is open-knowledge reference entry. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Cognetics, Corporation and Open-knowledge, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983, 1986—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1983. For this dossier, Cognetics, Corporation and Open-knowledge is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18636287. VIAF identifies the subject as 139697161. The Library of Congress control number is n92032802. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1983 and 1986.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cognetics Corporation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.