Editing Ted Nelson (section)

{{short description|American pioneer of information technology, philosopher, and sociologist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Ted Nelson
| image             = Ted Nelson cropped.jpg
| caption           = Nelson in 2011
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1937|6|17}}
| birth_place       = [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], U.S.
| death_date        = 
| death_place       = 
| field             = Information technology, philosophy, and sociology
| work_institutions = [[Project Xanadu]]
| alma_mater        = [[Swarthmore College]] ([[B. A.|BA]])<br />[[University of Chicago]]<br />[[Harvard University]] ([[M. A.|MA]])<br />[[Keio University]] ([[PhD]])
| known_for         = [[Hypertext]]
}}
{{Cyber anthropology|theorists}}
'''Theodor Holm Nelson''' (born June 17, 1937) is an American pioneer of [[information technology]], philosopher, and sociologist. He coined the terms ''[[hypertext]]'' and ''[[hypermedia]]'' in 1963<ref>{{cite book |first=Theodor Holm |last=Nelson |title=Proceedings of the 1965 20th national conference |chapter=Complex information processing |pages=84–100| date=August 1965 |publisher=ACM |doi=10.1145/800197.806036|isbn=9781450374958 |s2cid=2556127 |doi-access=free }}</ref> and published them in 1965.<ref name="ELMCIP">{{cite web|url=http://elmcip.net/node/7367|title=Complex Information Processing: A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate|publisher=Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice|first=Theodor Holm |last=Nelson |access-date=May 16, 2025 |archive-date=July 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707050841/http://elmcip.net/node/7367|url-status=live}}<!-- is this the same paper as the previous one? YES. I think so, the author seems misattributed. YOU'RE RIGHT! I'M CORRECTING IT NOW. --></ref> According to his 1997 ''[[Forbes]]'' profile, Nelson "sees himself as a literary romantic, like a [[Cyrano de Bergerac]], or 'the [[Orson Welles]] of software'."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/asap/1997/0825/134.html|title=Ted Nelson - Forbes.com|website=www.forbes.com|access-date=August 24, 2018|archive-date=August 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200820204902/https://www.forbes.com/asap/1997/0825/134.html|url-status=live}}</ref>