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A one-page comic story in honor of Ted Nelson’s career.

Two poems in honor of Ted Nelson’s career.

An edited transcript of a video created for the Intertwingled conference.

Ted Nelson has been a friend and colleague for almost the entire time during which he has struggled with one enormous, astoundingly difficult question: how might information, about everything, be better organized, in particular so as to emphasize the complex relationships among its various parts. He and I have many similarities in attitude and disposition and background, and a few differences in personality that intrigue me; I admire mostly his energy, focus and devotion to his task.

Personal reflections on the life and work of Ted Nelson.

An edited and annotated transcript of a telephone interview of Ted Nelson by Peter Schmideg.

Intertwingularity is the idea that everything is deeply interconnected on multiple levels. I will therefore describe my own background and experiences with Ted Nelson, comment on some issues raised by other contributors, and describe my views on the intertwingularity of modern popular culture.

arrived in 1974, exactly in time for the personal computer revolution. It was privately printed and published by Hugo’s Book Service. He kept the inventory in his garage.

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary, as Anne Carson puts it in [3, p. 46]. For Nelson it has been a long journey, at times a very difficult one, but it has been necessary. Necessary for him personally—as he puts it in , “I have no alternative but to go on. Like Shackleton of Antarctica I find myself enmeshed in a harsh duty that was not the original plan… I will fight for it to my last breath” [10, p. 339]. He has survived the journey so far, his ideals held high above the mud. But as the conference has demonstrated, as the people who have spoken here have demonstrated, the journey has also been necessary for the computing world.

My conversations with Ted Nelson began in earnest in 2004 when we shared an office at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). He was working on Xanadu, and I was working on [7]. My work was in conversation with Ted’s since I was a graduate student, having read early on. Ted signed my copy of [25] at a talk in the mid-1990s, thus I was in awe of the man when Bill Dutton put us together as visiting scholars in the OII attic, a wonderful space overlooking the Ashmolean Museum.