Bio
Ted Nelson pioneer of information technology, philosopher, and sociologist
TimePeriod/Context: Contemporary Years: Fields: IT, web, tech
Family
son of Emmy Award-winning director Ralph Nelson and Academy Award-winning actress Celeste Holm
Works
Works:
KnownFor: coining hypertext and hypermedia, Project Xanadu, coining “transclusion”, noted some of the tenets of ‘hacker ethics’ in Computer Lib Dream Machines (1974)
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