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born 1937 United States
Theodore H. Nelson (born June 17, 1937) coined the word "hypertext" in the sixties and envisioned a global network similar to (though arguably superior to) the Web in the seventies.
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Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.
And this book may suggest to some computer professionals that their position should not be as sacrosanct as they have thought, either.
We should not impose regularity where it does not exist.
You can and must understand computers now!
Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974)
A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within 10 seconds.
If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.
Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974)
The World Wide Web was precisely what we were trying to PREVENT— ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins, no version management, no rights management.
After all, dumbing down Xanadu sure worked well for Tim Berners-Lee!
I have long been alarmed by people’s sheeplike acceptance of the term ‘computer technology’ — it sounds so objective and inexorable — when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages.
Everything is deeply intertwingled.
Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974)
I hope, that in our archives and historical filings of the future, we do not allow the techie traditions of hierarchy and false regularity to be superimposed to the teeming, fantastic disorderlyness of human life.
Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium (like magazines or books) will cut down on another (like TV). This drastically reduces the sort of growth some people have been expecting.
Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974)
[Of the web] It's massively successful. It is trivially simple. Massively successful like karaoke - anybody can do it.
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