Ted Nelson
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Theodore H. Nelson (Born 1937) coined the word "hypertext" in the sixties and envisioned a global network similar to (though arguably superior to) the Web in the seventies.
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- "You can and must understand computers now!"
- Slogan for Computer Lib/Dream Machines, his 1974 self-published cult book. The insistence that ordinary people need to understand computers is remarkable for its era: the first personal computers were not available until 1975.
- "Everything is deeply intertwingled."
- Dream Machines, 1974, p 45, Computer Lib, 1974, p 42.
- "If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards."
- Dream Machines, 1974, p 22.
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References
- Ted Nelson: Computer Lib/Dream Machine. Self-published, 1974. ISBN 0-89347-002-3.
