Ted Nelson

Theodor Holm Nelson invented the term "hypertext" in 1965, and is a pioneer of information technology. He also coined the words transclusion and intertwingularity.

Nelson is currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, and a philosopher who works in the fields of information, computers, and human-machine interfaces. He founded Project Xanadu in 1960 with the goal of creating such a system on a computer network, further documented in his 1974 book Computer Lib / Dream Machines and the 1981 Literary Machines.

Ted on the Hyperwords Project: “Hyperwords breaks the iron prison of the web browser.”
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