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So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbi...

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Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do...

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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking...

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Ted Nelson

Philosopher

Born: 1937-06-17

Died: N/A

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.More