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Episode 55 - Project Xanadu

Advent of Computing

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The Story of TED NELSON

ted nelson is an outsider. He never operated inside the world of formal computer science, and he never really worked in the industry. Nelson couldn't just convince people that hypertext was possible. He could convince them that it was the most important technology of the future. There are a pile of sagas throughout this battle, all boiling down to nelson's attempt to find the right place and right people to make zanido real.

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