#tednelson — Public Fediverse posts

WHY do we do what we do?
Have we lost the WHY?
Watch 10 min Ted Nelson (2018) via https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html?q=ieee#fcontainer
uTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i67rQdHuO-8

#ComputerHistory #ComputerScience #TedNelson

WHY do we do what we do?
Have we lost the WHY?
Watch 10 min Ted Nelson (2018) via https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html?q=ieee#fcontainer
uTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i67rQdHuO-8

#ComputerHistory #ComputerScience #TedNelson

WHY do we do what we do?
Have we lost the WHY?
Watch 10 min Ted Nelson (2018) via https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html?q=ieee#fcontainer
uTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i67rQdHuO-8

#ComputerHistory #ComputerScience #TedNelson

WHY do we do what we do?
Have we lost the WHY?
Watch 10 min Ted Nelson (2018) via https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html?q=ieee#fcontainer
uTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i67rQdHuO-8

#ComputerHistory #ComputerScience #TedNelson

Xanadu and the madman #TedNelson and #ErikSandewall with Kent Pitman and Ramin Honary #lisp #basic

https://toobnix.org/w/grQNigh7kFaE9QEjWDgthF

Xanadu and the madman #TedNelson and #ErikSandewall with Kent Pitman and Ramin Honary #lisp #basic

https://toobnix.org/w/grQNigh7kFaE9QEjWDgthF

Xanadu and the madman #TedNelson and #ErikSandewall with Kent Pitman and Ramin Honary #lisp #basic

https://toobnix.org/w/grQNigh7kFaE9QEjWDgthF

Alan and Ted seem to enjoy my new text filter control 😍
#AlanKay Media Center: https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/kay.html
#TedNelson Media Center: https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html

#informationarchitecture #webdesign #ixd

Alan and Ted seem to enjoy my new text filter control 😍
#AlanKay Media Center: https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/kay.html
#TedNelson Media Center: https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html

#informationarchitecture #webdesign #ixd

Alan and Ted seem to enjoy my new text filter control 😍
#AlanKay Media Center: https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/kay.html
#TedNelson Media Center: https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html

#informationarchitecture #webdesign #ixd

Alan and Ted seem to enjoy my new text filter control 😍
#AlanKay Media Center: https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/kay.html
#TedNelson Media Center: https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html

#informationarchitecture #webdesign #ixd

Alan and Ted seem to enjoy my new text filter control 😍
#AlanKay Media Center: https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/kay.html
#TedNelson Media Center: https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html

#informationarchitecture #webdesign #ixd

Ted Nelson’s »A very general lecture« (2008) rediscovered @internetarchive
📼 📼 📼 https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html

#TedNelson

Ted Nelson’s »A very general lecture« (2008) rediscovered @internetarchive
📼 📼 📼 https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html

#TedNelson

Ted Nelson’s »A very general lecture« (2008) rediscovered @internetarchive
📼 📼 📼 https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html

#TedNelson

Ted Nelson’s »A very general lecture« (2008) rediscovered @internetarchive
📼 📼 📼 https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html

#TedNelson

Ted Nelson’s »A very general lecture« (2008) rediscovered @internetarchive
📼 📼 📼 https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html

#TedNelson

Many updates to Ted Nelson and Alan Kay Media Centers
#TedNelson >> https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html
#AlanKay >> https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/kay.html

#ComputerHistory #HistoryOfHypertext

Many updates to Ted Nelson and Alan Kay Media Centers
#TedNelson >> https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html
#AlanKay >> https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/kay.html

#ComputerHistory #HistoryOfHypertext

Many updates to Ted Nelson and Alan Kay Media Centers
#TedNelson >> https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html
#AlanKay >> https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/kay.html

#ComputerHistory #HistoryOfHypertext

Many updates to Ted Nelson and Alan Kay Media Centers
#TedNelson >> https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html
#AlanKay >> https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/kay.html

#ComputerHistory #HistoryOfHypertext

Many updates to Ted Nelson and Alan Kay Media Centers
#TedNelson >> https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html
#AlanKay >> https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/kay.html

#ComputerHistory #HistoryOfHypertext

‘The Magical Place of Literary Memory™: Xanadu’
Belinda Barnet
Screening the Past, 20 Dec 2014

Then all the charm
Is broken-all that phantom world so fair,
Vanishes and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other

(Coleridge, cited by Ted Nelson, ‘Dream Machines’, p. 142)

⭐️⭐️⭐️ A scholarly and deeply entertaining profile of Ted Nelson and his vision of hypertext by @manjusrii

#hypertext #tednelson #xanadu #media
https://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-18-first-release/the-magical-place-of-literary-memory%e2%84%a2-xanadu/

‘The Magical Place of Literary Memory™: Xanadu’
Belinda Barnet
Screening the Past, 20 Dec 2014

Then all the charm
Is broken-all that phantom world so fair,
Vanishes and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other

(Coleridge, cited by Ted Nelson, ‘Dream Machines’, p. 142)

⭐️⭐️⭐️ A scholarly and deeply entertaining profile of Ted Nelson and his vision of hypertext by @manjusrii

#hypertext #tednelson #xanadu #media
https://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-18-first-release/the-magical-place-of-literary-memory%e2%84%a2-xanadu/

‘The Magical Place of Literary Memory™: Xanadu’
Belinda Barnet
Screening the Past, 20 Dec 2014

Then all the charm
Is broken-all that phantom world so fair,
Vanishes and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other

(Coleridge, cited by Ted Nelson, ‘Dream Machines’, p. 142)

⭐️⭐️⭐️ A scholarly and deeply entertaining profile of Ted Nelson and his vision of hypertext by @manjusrii

#hypertext #tednelson #xanadu #media
https://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-18-first-release/the-magical-place-of-literary-memory%e2%84%a2-xanadu/

‘The Magical Place of Literary Memory™: Xanadu’
Belinda Barnet
Screening the Past, 20 Dec 2014

Then all the charm
Is broken-all that phantom world so fair,
Vanishes and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other

(Coleridge, cited by Ted Nelson, ‘Dream Machines’, p. 142)

⭐️⭐️⭐️ A scholarly and deeply entertaining profile of Ted Nelson and his vision of hypertext by @manjusrii

#hypertext #tednelson #xanadu #media
https://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-18-first-release/the-magical-place-of-literary-memory%e2%84%a2-xanadu/

‘The Magical Place of Literary Memory™: Xanadu’
Belinda Barnet
Screening the Past, 20 Dec 2014

Then all the charm
Is broken-all that phantom world so fair,
Vanishes and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other

(Coleridge, cited by Ted Nelson, ‘Dream Machines’, p. 142)

⭐️⭐️⭐️ A scholarly and deeply entertaining profile of Ted Nelson and his vision of hypertext by @manjusrii

#hypertext #tednelson #xanadu #media
https://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-18-first-release/the-magical-place-of-literary-memory%e2%84%a2-xanadu/

I am intrigued by Nuala Creed’s clay sculptures at @internetarchive HQ.

I can easily recognize #TedNelson on the left. /Ted media center: https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html

On the right is not Steve Jobs but Aaron Swartz https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

Next to him we have @brewsterkahle , founder of the IA.

Between Ted and Brews’ is "Mary Austin" /info via https://www.nualacreed.com/archivists.html
🧐 Interesting, Freddie Mercury’s long time friend. Am I wrong?

I am intrigued by Nuala Creed’s clay sculptures at @internetarchive HQ.

I can easily recognize #TedNelson on the left. /Ted media center: https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html

On the right is not Steve Jobs but Aaron Swartz https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

Next to him we have @brewsterkahle , founder of the IA.

Between Ted and Brews’ is "Mary Austin" /info via https://www.nualacreed.com/archivists.html
🧐 Interesting, Freddie Mercury’s long time friend. Am I wrong?

I am intrigued by Nuala Creed’s clay sculptures at @internetarchive HQ.

I can easily recognize #TedNelson on the left. /Ted media center: https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html

On the right is not Steve Jobs but Aaron Swartz https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

Next to him we have @brewsterkahle , founder of the IA.

Between Ted and Brews’ is "Mary Austin" /info via https://www.nualacreed.com/archivists.html
🧐 Interesting, Freddie Mercury’s long time friend. Am I wrong?

I am intrigued by Nuala Creed’s clay sculptures at @internetarchive HQ.

I can easily recognize #TedNelson on the left. /Ted media center: https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html

On the right is not Steve Jobs but Aaron Swartz https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

Next to him we have @brewsterkahle , founder of the IA.

Between Ted and Brews’ is "Mary Austin" /info via https://www.nualacreed.com/archivists.html
🧐 Interesting, Freddie Mercury’s long time friend. Am I wrong?

The Internet We Didn’t Get https://hackaday.com/2025/10/02/the-internet-we-didnt-get/ #alternativefuture #internethacks #transclusion #hypertext #TedNelson #internet #xanadu #web

The Internet We Didn’t Get https://hackaday.com/2025/10/02/the-internet-we-didnt-get/ #alternativefuture #internethacks #transclusion #hypertext #TedNelson #internet #xanadu #web

The Internet We Didn’t Get https://hackaday.com/2025/10/02/the-internet-we-didnt-get/ #alternativefuture #internethacks #transclusion #hypertext #TedNelson #internet #xanadu #web

The Internet We Didn’t Get https://hackaday.com/2025/10/02/the-internet-we-didnt-get/ #alternativefuture #internethacks #transclusion #hypertext #TedNelson #internet #xanadu #web

The Internet We Didn’t Get - Collective human consciousness is full of imagined or mythical dream-like utopias,... - https://hackaday.com/2025/10/02/the-internet-we-didnt-get/ #alternativefuture #internethacks #transclusion #hypertext #tednelson #internet #xanadu #web

The Internet We Didn’t Get - Collective human consciousness is full of imagined or mythical dream-like utopias,... - https://hackaday.com/2025/10/02/the-internet-we-didnt-get/ #alternativefuture #internethacks #transclusion #hypertext #tednelson #internet #xanadu #web

The Internet We Didn’t Get - Collective human consciousness is full of imagined or mythical dream-like utopias,... - https://hackaday.com/2025/10/02/the-internet-we-didnt-get/ #alternativefuture #internethacks #transclusion #hypertext #tednelson #internet #xanadu #web

The Internet We Didn’t Get - Collective human consciousness is full of imagined or mythical dream-like utopias,... - https://hackaday.com/2025/10/02/the-internet-we-didnt-get/ #alternativefuture #internethacks #transclusion #hypertext #tednelson #internet #xanadu #web

The Internet We Didn’t Get - Collective human consciousness is full of imagined or mythical dream-like utopias,... - https://hackaday.com/2025/10/02/the-internet-we-didnt-get/ #alternativefuture #internethacks #transclusion #hypertext #tednelson #internet #xanadu #web

Wow, I just dug up my old #ZigZag (https://www.nongnu.org/gzz/gi/gi.html) diskette. I was at one of Roger Gregory's house parties in the Presidio, and #TedNelson demonstrated this software on a 486 resting on the floor. He then handed out these diskettes to everyone. I believe it's a RedHat 6 boot floppy that auto-runs his programme, but it's probably just inert rust now. I'll have to see if I know someone with imaging equipment.

I can't recall where I got the Esther Dyson newsletter, but I think it may have been a talk she gave somewhere.

Wow, I just dug up my old #ZigZag (https://www.nongnu.org/gzz/gi/gi.html) diskette. I was at one of Roger Gregory's house parties in the Presidio, and #TedNelson demonstrated this software on a 486 resting on the floor. He then handed out these diskettes to everyone. I believe it's a RedHat 6 boot floppy that auto-runs his programme, but it's probably just inert rust now. I'll have to see if I know someone with imaging equipment.

I can't recall where I got the Esther Dyson newsletter, but I think it may have been a talk she gave somewhere.

Wow, I just dug up my old #ZigZag (https://www.nongnu.org/gzz/gi/gi.html) diskette. I was at one of Roger Gregory's house parties in the Presidio, and #TedNelson demonstrated this software on a 486 resting on the floor. He then handed out these diskettes to everyone. I believe it's a RedHat 6 boot floppy that auto-runs his programme, but it's probably just inert rust now. I'll have to see if I know someone with imaging equipment.

I can't recall where I got the Esther Dyson newsletter, but I think it may have been a talk she gave somewhere.

Wow, I just dug up my old #ZigZag (https://www.nongnu.org/gzz/gi/gi.html) diskette. I was at one of Roger Gregory's house parties in the Presidio, and #TedNelson demonstrated this software on a 486 resting on the floor. He then handed out these diskettes to everyone. I believe it's a RedHat 6 boot floppy that auto-runs his programme, but it's probably just inert rust now. I'll have to see if I know someone with imaging equipment.

I can't recall where I got the Esther Dyson newsletter, but I think it may have been a talk she gave somewhere.

Wow, I just dug up my old #ZigZag (https://www.nongnu.org/gzz/gi/gi.html) diskette. I was at one of Roger Gregory's house parties in the Presidio, and #TedNelson demonstrated this software on a 486 resting on the floor. He then handed out these diskettes to everyone. I believe it's a RedHat 6 boot floppy that auto-runs his programme, but it's probably just inert rust now. I'll have to see if I know someone with imaging equipment.

I can't recall where I got the Esther Dyson newsletter, but I think it may have been a talk she gave somewhere.

@barking 🧵As We May Not Think

Very enjoyable, and great live use of #aswemaythink trail tech!

I smiled at your note on Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort’s ‘New Media Reader’. It’s still a great read and has scholarly glosses — and sometimes full text — of original sources.

https://www.newmediareader.com/about.html

The NMR Book Samples page includes a free link to the excellent chapter on Ted Nelson’s ‘Computer Lib / Dream Machines’.

https://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-21-nelson.pdf

#hypertext #newmedia #tednelson

@barking 🧵As We May Not Think

Very enjoyable, and great live use of #aswemaythink trail tech!

I smiled at your note on Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort’s ‘New Media Reader’. It’s still a great read and has scholarly glosses — and sometimes full text — of original sources.

https://www.newmediareader.com/about.html

The NMR Book Samples page includes a free link to the excellent chapter on Ted Nelson’s ‘Computer Lib / Dream Machines’.

https://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-21-nelson.pdf

#hypertext #newmedia #tednelson

@barking 🧵As We May Not Think

Very enjoyable, and great live use of #aswemaythink trail tech!

I smiled at your note on Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort’s ‘New Media Reader’. It’s still a great read and has scholarly glosses — and sometimes full text — of original sources.

https://www.newmediareader.com/about.html

The NMR Book Samples page includes a free link to the excellent chapter on Ted Nelson’s ‘Computer Lib / Dream Machines’.

https://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-21-nelson.pdf

#hypertext #newmedia #tednelson

@barking 🧵As We May Not Think

Very enjoyable, and great live use of #aswemaythink trail tech!

I smiled at your note on Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort’s ‘New Media Reader’. It’s still a great read and has scholarly glosses — and sometimes full text — of original sources.

https://www.newmediareader.com/about.html

The NMR Book Samples page includes a free link to the excellent chapter on Ted Nelson’s ‘Computer Lib / Dream Machines’.

https://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-21-nelson.pdf

#hypertext #newmedia #tednelson

@barking 🧵As We May Not Think

Very enjoyable, and great live use of #aswemaythink trail tech!

I smiled at your note on Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort’s ‘New Media Reader’. It’s still a great read and has scholarly glosses — and sometimes full text — of original sources.

https://www.newmediareader.com/about.html

The NMR Book Samples page includes a free link to the excellent chapter on Ted Nelson’s ‘Computer Lib / Dream Machines’.

https://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-21-nelson.pdf

#hypertext #newmedia #tednelson

I contend that the purpose of computers is human freedom.
-- Ted Nelson

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #TedNelson #Computers #Freedom

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #GoblinValley #Utah

I contend that the purpose of computers is human freedom.
-- Ted Nelson

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #TedNelson #Computers #Freedom

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #GoblinValley #Utah

I contend that the purpose of computers is human freedom.
-- Ted Nelson

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #TedNelson #Computers #Freedom

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #GoblinValley #Utah

It's kinda wild how relevant Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines still feels. I read a passage to my s/o and she replied "yeah people need to get off the internet," not knowing I was reading words written in 1974.

"Somehow the idea is abroad that computer activities are uncreative, as compared, say, with rotating clay against your fingers until it becomes a pot. This is categorically false. Computers involve imagination and creation at the highest level. Computers are an involvement you can really get into, regardless of your trip or your karma. They are toys, they are lools, they are glorious abstractions.

So it you like mental creation, toy trains, or abstractions, computers are for you. If you are interested in democracy and its future, you'd better understand computers. And It you are concerned about power and the way it is being used, and aren't we all right now, the same thing goes."

(Not the aforemention passage; just another one I liked)

#tednelson #dreammachines

It's kinda wild how relevant Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines still feels. I read a passage to my s/o and she replied "yeah people need to get off the internet," not knowing I was reading words written in 1974.

"Somehow the idea is abroad that computer activities are uncreative, as compared, say, with rotating clay against your fingers until it becomes a pot. This is categorically false. Computers involve imagination and creation at the highest level. Computers are an involvement you can really get into, regardless of your trip or your karma. They are toys, they are lools, they are glorious abstractions.

So it you like mental creation, toy trains, or abstractions, computers are for you. If you are interested in democracy and its future, you'd better understand computers. And It you are concerned about power and the way it is being used, and aren't we all right now, the same thing goes."

(Not the aforemention passage; just another one I liked)

#tednelson #dreammachines

It's kinda wild how relevant Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines still feels. I read a passage to my s/o and she replied "yeah people need to get off the internet," not knowing I was reading words written in 1974.

"Somehow the idea is abroad that computer activities are uncreative, as compared, say, with rotating clay against your fingers until it becomes a pot. This is categorically false. Computers involve imagination and creation at the highest level. Computers are an involvement you can really get into, regardless of your trip or your karma. They are toys, they are lools, they are glorious abstractions.

So it you like mental creation, toy trains, or abstractions, computers are for you. If you are interested in democracy and its future, you'd better understand computers. And It you are concerned about power and the way it is being used, and aren't we all right now, the same thing goes."

(Not the aforemention passage; just another one I liked)

#tednelson #dreammachines

It's kinda wild how relevant Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines still feels. I read a passage to my s/o and she replied "yeah people need to get off the internet," not knowing I was reading words written in 1974.

"Somehow the idea is abroad that computer activities are uncreative, as compared, say, with rotating clay against your fingers until it becomes a pot. This is categorically false. Computers involve imagination and creation at the highest level. Computers are an involvement you can really get into, regardless of your trip or your karma. They are toys, they are lools, they are glorious abstractions.

So it you like mental creation, toy trains, or abstractions, computers are for you. If you are interested in democracy and its future, you'd better understand computers. And It you are concerned about power and the way it is being used, and aren't we all right now, the same thing goes."

(Not the aforemention passage; just another one I liked)

#tednelson #dreammachines

It's kinda wild how relevant Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines still feels. I read a passage to my s/o and she replied "yeah people need to get off the internet," not knowing I was reading words written in 1974.

"Somehow the idea is abroad that computer activities are uncreative, as compared, say, with rotating clay against your fingers until it becomes a pot. This is categorically false. Computers involve imagination and creation at the highest level. Computers are an involvement you can really get into, regardless of your trip or your karma. They are toys, they are lools, they are glorious abstractions.

So it you like mental creation, toy trains, or abstractions, computers are for you. If you are interested in democracy and its future, you'd better understand computers. And It you are concerned about power and the way it is being used, and aren't we all right now, the same thing goes."

(Not the aforemention passage; just another one I liked)

#tednelson #dreammachines

@Runkefer @bosak @harrymccracken 🧵Computer Lib

I posted a nomination to The Verge:

The story goes that the first Velvet Underground album sold only 30,000 copies in its first five years, but every copy started a band. Ted Nelson’s self-published two-sided book pushed personal computing, interactive computer graphics — and hypertext - into so many people’s heads so forcefully that it changed the world we live in, like the Velvet Underground.

#TedNelson

Ref https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/03/01/velvet/

@Runkefer @bosak @harrymccracken 🧵Computer Lib

I posted a nomination to The Verge:

The story goes that the first Velvet Underground album sold only 30,000 copies in its first five years, but every copy started a band. Ted Nelson’s self-published two-sided book pushed personal computing, interactive computer graphics — and hypertext - into so many people’s heads so forcefully that it changed the world we live in, like the Velvet Underground.

#TedNelson

Ref https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/03/01/velvet/