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> I've used Jupyter since it was IPython notebook, but I don't think that community claims to be the first coming of notebooks.

My recollection (which could be wrong, it's been a while) is that SageMath’s notebook preceeded iPython notebooks. IIRC iPython started as a CLI repl, which may have come before the notebook.

(Mathematica came before all of them, and likely inspired SageMath’s interface)

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Tom Boothby, Alex Clemesha and I wrote the first web based notebook interface in 2006, which was indeed the Sage Notebook. It was very painful at the time - jquery wasn’t even a thing yet! It was inspired by Mathematica notebooks, mainly because Alex was a heavy Mathematica user when he was a physics undergrad at UCSD. Similarly, Fernando Perez’s Ipython CLI was also inspired by Mathematica notebooks. I personally didn’t use Mathematica notebooks a lot, and was even more inspired by various clever Emacs modes and also Mathcad, and by the first version of Google docs. In any case, we were all inspired by Mathematica notebooks!

Speaking of which, has anyone made an open source pretty printed input interface for sage or do I have to keep flogging my old Mathematica 7 license for a few more years?

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