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Ted Nelson's Dream Machines (1974)
You CAN and MUST understand computers now!
Half the book was a manifesto to personal computing self-published in the year that home computer kits started becoming available.
The other dedicated to Nelson's research project (Project Xanadu) where he introduced the concept of hypertext and hypermedia.
Nelson's hypertext went on to inspire the creation of the World Wide Web, a project Nelson never felt fully captured his vision.
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