Ted Nelson
Ted Nelson
Theodor Holm "Ted" Nelsonis an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher, and sociologist. He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963 and published them in 1965. Nelson coined the terms transclusion, virtuality, and intertwingularity...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth17 June 1937
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
american-author arbitrary given information point structure text
The point is that you could structure this arbitrary information in any way. Well, given that, now we can write text that can go in all directions.
numbers information arbitrary
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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I want to create, however, a new breed, a new kind of computer system that is much simpler that allows kids to programme once again.
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The only ones those certifications are recognized by are the associations who give them.
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I never saw a computer during that course, I merely looked at the catalogues and the magazines and here was a picture showing a map on a screen.
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So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
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I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
moving topics computer
But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.
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Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.
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Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
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The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.
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What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.