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By Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on Ted Nelson, Computer Lib, hypertext, Xanadu. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews.
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Tools for Thought by Howard Rheingold
April, 2000: a revised edition of Tools for Thought is
, including a revised chapter with 1999 interviews of Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, Alan Kay, Brenda Laurel, and Avron Barr.
The idea that people could use computers to amplify thought and communication, as
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Growing biography, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Theodor Holm Nelson (born 1937) is an
" in 1963 and published it in 1965. He also is credited with first use of the words
. The main thrust of his work has been to make computers easily accessible to ordinary people. His motto is:
A user interface should be
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Includes list of references to articles and books by Nelson. [mprove]
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Ted Nelson’s Bibliography
Verified references have signatures with square brackets. The others are taken from various sources, but I still dare to get my fingers on them. Please let me know, if you find new online or offline references to Ted Nelson:
Nelson, Theodor Holm: Life, Love,
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Dismissive article by Gary Wolf on Ted Nelson and the history of Xanadu project. [Wired]
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It was the most radical computer dream of the hacker era. Ted Nelson's Xanadu project was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form. Instead, it sucked Nelson and his intrepid band of true believers into what became the
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Story on Ted Nelson releasing source code of legendary Xanadu.
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After three decades, visionary Ted Nelson has released the source code for the legendary Xanadu project that foretold the Web of today. By Leander Kahney.
Programmer Reaches His Xanadu
After 30-years in development, the source code for Xanadu, an ambitious attempt to build a multi-dimensional hypertext system that in many ways parallels the Web, has been released by Internet visionary and enigma Ted Nelson.
, who coined the word "hypertext" in the
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Story on Ted Nelson announcing ZigZag, getting Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Web Award for his contribution to hypertext. [Wired News]
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After toiling over his mythical Xanadu publishing system since 1960, Ted Nelson told stunned WWW7 conference-goers that he is finally set to release software based on the paradigm into the public domain.
Hypertext Guru Has New Spin on Old Plans
Some 38 years after first proposing a new hypertext document-linking system, visionary
announced his first deliverable software product on Friday. Though details were not immediately available, Nelson described the product, called Zigzag, as a kind of
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