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12.03.02
 

TED NELSON ON BBC-- THE DILDONICS INTERVIEW

Listen here (till March 22)
"Before the personal computer, and before the Web, there was Theodor Holm Nelson, who almost half a century ago understood how computers would transform the printed page."
--John Markoff in the New York Times, 2009.01.10
  Cached as text here.

 

HOME PAGE OF TED NELSON

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Founding designer, Project Xanadu
            the first computer hypertext project, 1960

Designer-Generalist, The Internet Archive

Visiting Professor, University of Southampton

"Poet, philosopher and rogue."   A recent poem is hither.

Many think that the World Wide Web was my idea.*  I make no such claim (see below).

 
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My new book, POSSIPLEX (excerpts hither), is available from Amazon or Lulu.com (downloads).
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT POSSIPLEX, hither.  VIDEO OF READINGS FROM POSSIPLEX, hither.
My recent book, Geeks Bearing Gifts, is available from Amazon or Lulu.com (downloads).
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUTGEEKS BEARING GIFTS, hither.  EXCERPTS FROM GEEKS BEARING GIFTS, hither.
My other writings, work and whatnot, hither.
 
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Things said about me recently, hither.

Perhaps the best summary of my hyertext work is by Tim Berners-Lee, hither (with some corrections by footnote).

 

*See citations of my work in original proposal for the Web, 1989.  My designs for radically different on-line documents go to the nature of writing and interconnection.  The Web simulates paper, locking us to the obsolete, adding blind 1-way jumps to paper simulation.  I fight still for a world of radically different electronic documents, with flying pieces, visible side-by-side connections, connection of content to origins, and unbreaking links.

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