Matthias MProveMany updates to Ted Nelson and Alan Kay Media Centers
#TedNelson >> https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html
#AlanKay >> https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/kay.html
Duncan StephenGrounding AI the webby way — Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2026 takeaways
There was a heavy focus on artificial intelligence. But what really struck me was that the semantic approaches that are preparing us for our AI future are well-established web standards that have been around for decades.https://duncanstephen.net/grounding-ai-the-webby-way-taxonomy-boot-camp-london-2026-takeaways/
Dobody 🇺🇦🍉I was bored in the train so I made a small HTML & JS boilerplate combo for a working #stretchtext implementation.
As you click on highlighted words, they are replaced by longer phrases. More than a technical tool, stretchtext is a practice, as I had the change to see. Your entire way of writing must accomodate for mid-sentence replacements that make sense.
It's also super fun.
Greg Lloyd‘The Magical Place of Literary Memory™: Xanadu’
Belinda Barnet
Screening the Past, 20 Dec 2014
Then all the charm
Is broken-all that phantom world so fair,
Vanishes and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other
(Coleridge, cited by Ted Nelson, ‘Dream Machines’, p. 142)
⭐️⭐️⭐️ A scholarly and deeply entertaining profile of Ted Nelson and his vision of hypertext by @manjusrii
#hypertext #tednelson #xanadu #media
https://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-18-first-release/the-magical-place-of-literary-memory%e2%84%a2-xanadu/
Space HoboWow, I just dug up my old #ZigZag (https://www.nongnu.org/gzz/gi/gi.html) diskette. I was at one of Roger Gregory's house parties in the Presidio, and #TedNelson demonstrated this software on a 486 resting on the floor. He then handed out these diskettes to everyone. I believe it's a RedHat 6 boot floppy that auto-runs his programme, but it's probably just inert rust now. I'll have to see if I know someone with imaging equipment.
I can't recall where I got the Esther Dyson newsletter, but I think it may have been a talk she gave somewhere.
@barking 🧵As We May Not Think
Very enjoyable, and great live use of #aswemaythink trail tech!
I smiled at your note on Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort’s ‘New Media Reader’. It’s still a great read and has scholarly glosses — and sometimes full text — of original sources.
https://www.newmediareader.com/about.html
The NMR Book Samples page includes a free link to the excellent chapter on Ted Nelson’s ‘Computer Lib / Dream Machines’.
https://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-21-nelson.pdf
fraggleLong before the web we know, Ted Nelson envisioned something grander: Project Xanadu. It was supposed to be a hypertext system that allowed two-way linking, non-destructive editing, and better citation tracking. Started in the 1960s, it aimed to revolutionize knowledge sharing. But complexity, scope creep, and funding problems meant the web beat it to the punch. Still, many of its ideas were far ahead of their time.
#Xanadu #HypertextHistory #TedNelson #LostTech #InternetOrigins
#Xanadu #HypertextHistory #TedNelson #LostTech #InternetOrigins
RetroComputingMXConoce a Ted Nelson. Acuñó "hipertexto" en 1965 y soñó con #xanadu, una web mucho más avanzada. Un visionario incomprendido que inspiró Internet. Su legado retro te sorprenderá #tednelson #hipertexto #retrocomputingmx #historiadelaweb
Wisdom in SpaceI contend that the purpose of computers is human freedom.
-- Ted Nelson
Edward BettsToday I’m flying Aer Lingus from Dublin to the USA to meet up with none other than computer pioneer Ted Nelson. 🛫✨ Over the next two weeks, we’ll be diving deep into the challenge of bringing Xanadu to life using modern web technology. A dream collaboration for a digital dreamer. 🌐💡 #XanaduProject #TedNelson #FutureOfTheWeb #DigitalPioneer #AerLingus #DublinAirport
