WIRED story on Ted Nelson

"The Curse of Xanadu" by Gary Wolf <~1995 --"that some mental connection or relationship might dissolve was unbearable." BBC interview with Ted Nelson 2001
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huh, google directory to Ted Nelson. see esp:

Lemonade -Lengthy, passionate response from Ted Nelson to the Wired article "The Curse of Xanadu".

rw page on web biography - etext authobio of Ted Nelson (hypertext pioneer)

Tools For Thought: Xanadu, Network Culture, and Beyond
Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on Ted Nelson, Computer Lib, hypertext, Xanadu. By Howard Rheingold. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews.
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yay-also online: Rheingold's book VIRTUAL COMMUNITY
esp yay re his community, THE WELL - - -just started noticing (?) @ Salon
plus lynk from rg ...the dark side of virtual community or smsch

Tim Berners-Lee invented the WWW (Ted Nelson hypertext, Doug Engelbart?)
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html#Influences
va rw's Critical history of HTML (morning not-so-quickie):
1994 June: TimBL already seriously out of touch: "I hardly spend any time browsing" [cite]