December 18, 2013 - theodp writes "Speaking at a memorial event for the legendary Douglas Engelbart at the Computer History Museum, Ted Nelson was pissed-with-a-capital-P. Nelson in effect gave two powerful eulogies — one for his friend Dr. Engelbart, who left this Earth in July, and a second for Engelbart's care...

Why Nelson matters A fuller explanation of why Nelson matters is in my post from a few years ago, Digital Camelot - The Once and Future Web of Engelbart and Nelson, but here I caption its core message: If you care about modern culture and how technology is shaping it, this is worth thinking about -- A powerful eulogy for where the Web might have gone, and still may someday, and the friendship of the two people most responsible for envisioning the Web* -- Ted Nelson's eulogy for his friend Doug Engelbart, as reported by John Markoff in The Times -- with Nelson's inimitable flair.

June 28, 2026 - Theodor Holm Nelson (born June 17, 1937) is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher of computer science, and sociologist. He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963 and published them in 1965. According to his profile published in Forbes in 1997, Nelson "sees himself ...

November 26, 2018 - A fuller explanation of why Nelson ... about — A powerful eulogy for where the Web might have gone, and still may someday, and the friendship of the two people most responsible for envisioning the Web* — Ted Nelson’s ...

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December 15, 2013 - From December 9th, 2013 at the Computer History Museum. Thoughtful and intense. The audience laughs are weird? Seems to me that Ted's passionate delivery comes partially from not getting the recognition he deserves himself.

Ted in 2001 at the International Semantic Web Working Symposium held at Stanford University, with the late, much-loved and much-mourned Aaron Schwartz and Douglas Engelbart. The 14-year-old Aaron was attending the symposium as a member of the RDF Technical Committee. In 1960, a sophisticated young New Yorker and aspiring philosopher and film-maker, Theodor Holm Nelson envisioned the interactive computer screen as the new home of the human race and began designing documents for the future.

For the proceedings of the April 14, 2014 conference “Intertwingled, The Life and Work of Ted Nelson”, the infinitely valuable Stanford University archivist Henry Lowood compiled an exhaustive list of Ted’s publications.

As a result of the vagabond nature of the Nelson oeuvre, few libraries own more than a few of his published works, and several of his most important texts, such as the earliest editions of Computer Lib/Dream Machines and Literary Machines have achieved almost legendary status for being difficult to lay hands on. So where are we to turn for the texts? Thus, this bibliography. At least it is a start. My goal has been to put together a complete picture of Ted Nelson’s body of work as expressed in publication, including selections from ephemeral and non-print media.

Dr Barnett, Senior Lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology, explains why Ted Nelson’s vision is the most important in the history of computing.

Ted Nelson is a somewhat controversial figure in the computing world. For thirty-something years he has been having grand ideas but has never seen them through to completed projects. His biggest project, Xanadu, was to be a world-wide electronic publishing system that would have created a sort ...

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August 9, 2023 - Theodor Holm "Ted" Nelson (born 17 June 1937) is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher and sociologist. He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963 and published them in 1965. Nelson also coined the terms transclusion, virtuality, intertwingularity (in Literary ...

The correspondence also documents Nelson’s speaking and teaching engagements at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Chapman University. Other well-known information technology figures found among Ted Nelson’s correspondence include Douglas Engelbart, Steve Wozniak, Harry Mendell, and Laurie Spiegel.

Readings from, and discussion of, Ted Nelson’s Possiplex with film clips and an extensive questions and answer session.

HOME PAGE OF TED NELSON. There are some eighty videos on my channel, youtube.com/thetednelson What I most want you to see: My current work on project Xanadu (12 minutes)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMKy52Intac · A summary of my life and work. (48 minutes.) https://www.youtube.com/wat...

I’d like to talk about Ted the man, limits, connections, some pretty broad history, all leading up to why I believe Ted is limitless. I was born in Norway. Land of vikings, socially connected politics. Ancestral home of Ted Nelson and Doug Engelbart. A land of...

He describes himself, his colleagues, his philosophy and his project in "Literary Machines" which is an attempt to put his hypertext thoughts onto paper. He publishes it himself (I have a copy of LM 90.1 -TBL). This is essential reading as background, enthusiathm and ideas on hypertext.