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Ted Nelson

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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.


— Ted Nelson


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The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.


— Ted Nelson


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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.


— Ted Nelson


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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.


— Ted Nelson


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The effort is documented in his 1974 book Computer Lib / Dream Machines and the 1981 Literary Machines. This stimulated discussions within the computer industry and encouraged people to experiment with Hypertext features. Personal life
Nelson is the son of Emmy Award-winning director Ralph Nelson and the Academy Award-winning actress Celeste Holm.

He also has been credited with first using the words transclusion virtuality intertwingularity and teledildonics. Theodor Holm Nelson (born June 17 1937) is an American sociologist philosopher and pioneer of information technology (IT sociolosopher). He coined the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia" in 1963 and publiTed Nelsond them in 1965.

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