[Home](https://tednelsonfan.com/) / Videos # 19 recordings of him. 6 for context. Every ID was checked against YouTube's own metadata for title and channel; twelve are from his channel, TheTedNelson, the rest from the Computer History Museum, Stanford, IEEE Spectrum, TWiT and Notion. Context videos are labeled not him. Each player loads only when you press play. ## Ted Nelson speaking ### Xanadu Basics 1a - VISIBLE CONNECTION Nelson's short explainer of the core Xanadu idea, visible two-way connections between documents, from his own channel.TheTedNelson on YouTube; Ted Nelson speaking ### Ted Nelson Demonstrates XanaduSpace Nelson personally demonstrating XanaduSpace, his 3D hypertext viewer with visible transclusion links, on his own channel.TheTedNelson on YouTube; Ted Nelson speaking ### Ted Nelson demonstrates Xanadu Space A third-party upload of Nelson demonstrating XanaduSpace; he is the speaker and demonstrator throughout.photonhunter on YouTube; Ted Nelson speaking ### Ted Nelson struggles with uncomprehending radio interviewer, 1979 A 1979 radio interview, posted by Nelson himself, in which the interviewer cannot follow what hypertext is. A decade before the Web.TheTedNelson on YouTube; Ted Nelson speaking ### Ted's Presentation at his 80th Birthday Party, Internet Archive (audio only) Audio-only recording of Nelson's 2017 talk at his 80th birthday celebration at the Internet Archive, posted on his own channel.TheTedNelson on YouTube; Ted Nelson speaking ### Ted Nelson's Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart His December 2013 eulogy for Douglas Engelbart at the Computer History Museum. His home page calls it his best writing ever.Computer History Museum on YouTube; Ted Nelson speaking ### Stanford Seminar: I forgot, I invented hypertext - Ted Nelson A full Stanford seminar lecture by Nelson on hypertext, Xanadu and what he thinks the Web got wrong.Stanford Online on YouTube; Ted Nelson speaking ### Director's Cut: Ted Nelson on Hypertext, Douglas Englebart, Xanadu and More Extended IEEE Spectrum interview with Nelson covering the birth of personal computing, Engelbart, Xanadu and thinking beyond the possible.IEEE Spectrum on YouTube; Ted Nelson speaking ### Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn From the Past Shorter cut of the IEEE Spectrum interview with Nelson, focused on lessons for today's programmers.IEEE Spectrum on YouTube; Ted Nelson speaking ### Ted Nelson on Project Xanadu: Triangulation 164 Long-form TWiT Triangulation interview with Nelson on Project Xanadu and his life in computing.TWiT Tech Podcast Network on YouTube; Ted Nelson speaking ### Pioneers: Ted Nelson A 2019 interview profile produced by Notion, in which Nelson talks about what computers could have become.Notion on YouTube; Ted Nelson speaking ## Computers for Cynics, 2012 His eight-part series on why the computer world is the way it is, from his own channel. ### Computers for Cynics 0 - The Myth of Technology Opening episode of Nelson's 2012 Computers for Cynics series on his own channel, arguing that today's computer conventions are arbitrary choices, not inevitable technology.TheTedNelson on YouTube; Ted Nelson speaking ### Computers for Cynics 1 - The Nightmare of Files and Directories Nelson on why hierarchical files and directories were a wrong turn that still constrains how people organize information.TheTedNelson on YouTube; Ted Nelson speaking ### Computers for Cynics 2 - It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC Nelson's critique of the Xerox PARC desktop/paper-simulation paradigm that Apple and Microsoft later copied.TheTedNelson on YouTube; Ted Nelson speaking ### Computers for Cynics 3 - The Database Mess Nelson on relational databases and why he thinks tabular data models distort real-world structure.TheTedNelson on YouTube; Ted Nelson speaking ### Computers for Cynics 4 - PERSONAL COMPUTING-- the Dance of Apple and Microsoft Nelson's history of the personal-computer era as a two-company dance, from the man who wrote Computer Lib in 1974 before the Altair shipped.TheTedNelson on YouTube; Ted Nelson speaking ### Computers for Cynics 5 - Hyperhistory Nelson's own account of hypertext history from his 1960 Xanadu idea through Engelbart to the Web.TheTedNelson on YouTube; Ted Nelson speaking ### Computers for Cynics 6 - The Real Story of the World Wide Web Nelson explains why he sees the Web as a shallow, one-way-link simplification of the hypertext he proposed.TheTedNelson on YouTube; Ted Nelson speaking ### Computers for Cynics N - CLOSURE: Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain Closing episode of the Computers for Cynics series, Nelson's summing-up of who decides what computers are.TheTedNelson on YouTube; Ted Nelson speaking ## Context: not him, but about the world he describes Hyperland, in which he appears on camera; Engelbart's 1968 demo; a podcast on Xanadu; Jaron Lanier at Intertwingled; an OpenXanadu walkthrough. ### Douglas Adams - Hyperland Not a Nelson talk: the 1990 BBC documentary written by Douglas Adams, with Tom Baker. Nelson appears on camera explaining Xanadu, a year before the first web browser.UJ ObscureMedia on YouTube; context, not him ### 1968 "Mother of All Demos" with Doug Engelbart & Team (1/3) [re-mastered] Not Nelson: Douglas Engelbart's December 1968 SRI demo of the mouse, hypertext linking and collaborative editing, the first working hypertext Nelson's ideas were measured against.Doug Engelbart Institute on YouTube; context, not him ### The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968) Not Nelson: a single-video full-length upload of Engelbart's 1968 demo, useful as one embed rather than the three-part Institute version.Marcel on YouTube; context, not him ### Episode 55 - Project Xanadu Not Nelson: a computing-history podcast episode narrating Project Xanadu's story from 1960 through the Autodesk/XOC years to the Web.Advent Of Computing on YouTube; context, not him ### Jaron at "Intertwingled" festival, 2014 Not Nelson speaking: Jaron Lanier's tribute talk at Chapman University's April 2014 Intertwingled celebration of Nelson's work, posted on Nelson's own channel.TheTedNelson on YouTube; context, not him ### OpenXanaduDemo Not Nelson: a walkthrough of OpenXanadu, the 2014 browser-based 'working deliverable' of Xanadu with visible parallel transclusions.Jack Seay on YouTube; context, not him --- An independent fan and tribute site celebrating the work of Ted Nelson. 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