#tednelson #computerlib 1975

Oh, someone has finally uploaded a (possibly legal?) copy of Computer Lib/Dream Machines to archive:

https://archive.org/details/computer-lib-dream-machines/

Unredacted 1st ed, including some very… Ted Nelson is a white male born in the 1930s, his language is, uh… not acceptable sometimes.

Also, cover price $7 in 1974 is $37.61 in 2021, not $120, Ted.
#computerlib #xanadu

#Decontextualization is a problem that #hypertext was supposed to solve, but its web bastard children have made #context linking worse.

Revisit #ComputerLib / #DreamMachines of OG #TedNelson and #ProjectXanadu and the two-way hyperlinks that kept sources and derivative materials linked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson

Internet media lacks context — isolated images without captions, tags, or creator attribution, clipped paragraphs without reference to books, soundclips not albums.