Ted Nelson's Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart

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Strong rec DonHopkins · 2025-03 · on “A USB Interface to the "Mother of All Demos" Keyset”

>[...] but unlike his other innovations, the keyset failed to catch on. I'm sad that he and others like Ted Nelson and Brett Victor would rightly say that his most important innovations have so far failed to catch on. But there's still time to raise awareness and make them real! Ted Nelson's Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart [this video] >Ted Nelson's emotional and moving eulogy for his friend Douglas Engelbart. Given at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, on December 9, 2013. An Homage to Douglas Engelbart and a Critique of the State of Tech: [LINK] >You don’t need me to tell you that Douglas Engelbart was one of the greatest men of all time. We gather today, in pretense of unanimity an

Cites En_gr_Student · 2018-12 · on “Show HN: Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Doug Engelbart's Great Demo”

Also worth saying... [this video] Are we now, this moment, coming to 5:15-5:34? I suspect, and hope, that the eulogist was pointing this toward ARPA and SRI and not me.

Cites morphle · 2023-01 · on “Alan Kay on “Should web browsers have stuck to being document viewers?” and ...”

Alan Kay made scathing comments on the World Wide Web browser (reinventing a broken wheel) at length in a lecture "Normal Considered Harmful" for computer science students at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. For context: Alan himself invented WYSIWYG at Xerox PARC. He was present at "the mother of all demo's" by Douglas Englebart. Ted Nelson who invented hyperlinks and Xanadu got Alan in touch with his future wife [2] and Alan was there at Apple when Bill Atkinson made Hypercard. He mentions that when he told Tim Berners Lee about the much better work of Douglas Englebart, Tim was chagrined (that he had not read any of the papers about earlier and much better designs of 28, 25 and 20