September 1998
Ted Nelson's Big Step
He dreamed up the idea of hypertext as a way to link all human knowledge decades before the World Wide Web--but never delivered a usable piece of software.
By Steve Ditlea
He coined the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia," and long predicted the universal knowledge repository we now know as the World Wide Web. So why hasn't Ted Nelson gained the recognition due one of the pioneers of the Information Age? Rather than being celebrated by the digerati, Nelson, currently a visiting professor of environmental information at Japan's Keio University, is an exile from an American technology community that has largely shunned him.
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