Ted Nelson (1937 - now) is an American technologist best known for coining the term 'hypertext'. Wikipedia says,
"Nelson founded Project Xanadu in 1960, with the goal of creating a computer network with a simple user interface." (Wikipedia: Ted Nelson, 12.23.23 UTC 04:16)
Jaron Lanier says,
"A core technical difference between a Nelsonian network and what we have become familiar with online is that [Nelson's] network links were two-way instead of one-way." (Who Owns the Future, 2013)
The rest of this post is some quotes from Nelson.
Hypertext
"Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper." (Proceedings of the 20th National Conference of the Association of Computing Machinery, 1965)
"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." (AZQuotes.com)
"So that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms." (AZquotes.com)
