History of "Personal Computing" talked by Ted Nelson, the creator of hypertext

Ted NelsonMrHypertextIt is known as the creator of. As a system that handles hypertext used as the current "Internet"World Wide Web(Web) is mainstream, but its idea is Ted Nelson's "Xanadu project"Is the basis and is an important person who can not be removed in talking about the history of the web.IEEEIn the following movie published by Ted Nelson, he talks about the history of personal computing.

Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn From the Past - IEEE Spectrum


History of Personal Computing
"Looking at the history of computers, we have made tremendous progress in the last 50 years."


"People of the young generation may not have heard but in the 1960's and 1970's, the young people of those days are called" commune "Hippie communityI made it. And theyFree love affair,LSDIdealism for the mental release with the aim of a new economy. This spirit also affected the computer world at that time. "


"Previous computers were expensive," computing "was commonly done by multiple people,Moore's lawSo, the price of the computer became cheap at a tremendous speed and it became a level that individuals can purchase. "This will create personal computing, or" personal computing ".


"I thought that one programmer would be a later leader, because expressions of individuals created were free, so they could achieve dramatic growth in some areas such as the arts field We thought that there was sex. "


"And I decided to abstract at the beginning of thinking about the way the document of the future is and this is the birth of the" Xanadu project "


"In Xanadu you can connect several sentences to each other, for example, the original sentence will be displayed in a visible form as the citation source"


"However, at that time it was not developed so far, and in the hyper text system of the 1960's and 1970's,LinkReference became popular. after that,Tim Berners-LeeWith Mr.CERNThe power of the World Wide Web (Web) is born. "


◆ Advice to young programmers
"I think that there are so many things around us, it is difficult to find one possibility out of them, even now I do not know, the future is not known to anyone, One choice may be fatal. "


"This is what I did when I was making the first software, first thinking about closing my eyes and pressing this key, what moves and presses another key to make this move "


"That is important to imagine."