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From: ns@CAT.CMU.EDU (Nicholas Spies)
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Subject: Ted Nelson
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Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 23:51:01 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  3 23:51:01 1987
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Keywords: Ted Nelson, hypertext, Epiphany

Not to slight V. Bush for his theoretical contributions, until Ted Nelson
they were largely just that. 

A True Ted Nelson Story (at least, as I recall it, anyway)
Whilst a student at Swarthmore, Ted convinced the Student Council to finanace
a student film called "The Ephiphany of Slocum Furlough", which was shot
(I think) in 1959. Only problem was, there wasn't enough money to record
audio...and some have even said that there wasn't time to write a script. 
Undaunted, the film was shot anyway with "generic" mouth motions, which made
everyone look rather like fish. Some time later, Ted went back for a screening
of the edited film "synchronized" with a 1/4" audio tape.

The moral? Ted Nelson ALMOST invented vaporware, too!

--Nick