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On the topic of videos involving Brand and Engelbart, they make amusing cameos in the film by Ted Nelson, which I recently stumbled upon.

"Silicon Valley Story -- A Very Short Comedy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXlyMrv8_dQ

[note: brief NSFW moment from 2:10 to 2:25]

⬐ fit2rule

Whoa, that was great! Was that the very special Kiki Stockhammer at 1:08?

⬐ dang

That's amazing!

Ted might do an AMA on Hacker News, if I haven't spoiled our chances by taking pathetically long to follow up about it.

⬐ raleighm

> Ted might do an AMA on Hacker News

Yes please!

⬐ raleighm

While I'm at it, here are Engelbart, Nelson and Howard Rheingold chatting casually over dinner. I really love this very much. These are two of my favorite bookmarks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCLCIw-HSJc&t=221

(I set the start time to skip Rheingold's introduction but feel free to go back and view.)

⬐ dang

That's marvelous! "It was like having Galileo and Newton over for dinner, as far as I'm concerned."

I did go back and view Howard's intro and it's very nice as well. His love shines through.

Ted Nelson: Computer Lib / Dream Machines (1975) [pdf] (worrydream.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19249556

http://worrydream.com/refs/Nelson-ComputerLibDreamMachines19...

For what it's worth, YC is helping Ted Nelson sell his "Computer Lib / Dream Machines" book:

https://twitter.com/nolimits/status/1087770718878687232

This book is a truly unique and is worth owning in hardcopy format.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19058137

Ted versus The Media Lab [video] (youtube.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22169775

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH4Kr3Gsadc

Interview with Ted Nelson (notion.so)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19057331

https://www.notion.so/tools-and-craft/03-ted-nelson

Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn from the Past [video] (ieee.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16222520

https://spectrum.ieee.org/video/geek-life/profiles/ted-nelso...

Ted Nelson struggles with uncomprehending radio interviewer (1979) [audio] (youtube.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17376753

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVU62CQTXFI

Ted Nelson’s published papers on computers and interaction, 1965 to 1977 (archive.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16245697

https://archive.org/details/SelectedPapers1977

Ask HN: What is the best resource for understanding Ted Nelson's ZigZag?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22518401

http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/XUsurvey/xuDation.html

http://mimix.io/getting-to-xanadu

Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Fest (how the script of Tron was the first movie script to ever be edited by a word processing program, on the Alto computer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrlSqtpOkw

"Silicon Valley Story" — a Very Short Romantic Comedy by Ted Nelson

A playful story about the microcircuitry of love, with Ted Nelson as an absentminded genius, featuring Doug Engelbart as Ted's father and Stewart Brand as the villainous CEO.

Closing song: "Information Flow", sung by Donna Spitzer and the auteur.

With Timothy Leary as the Good Venture Capitalist!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXlyMrv8_dQ

Ted Nelson's Channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr_DXJ7ZUAJO_d8CnHYTDMQ

⬐ lioeters

Oh, joy - the play "Silicon Valley Story" by Ted Nelson is so funny, weird, and self-consciously awkward in the best theatrical sense. Brilliant. I had never seen that before.

Saved the whole list in study/ted-nelson.txt. Thank you for gathering the links and sharing. (I'm a long-time fan of your work!)

""" "Silicon Valley Story" — a Very Short Romantic Comedy by Ted Nelson

A playful story about the microcircuitry of love, with Ted Nelson as an absentminded genius, featuring Doug Engelbart as Ted's father and Stewart Brand as the villainous CEO.

Closing song: "Information Flow", sung by Donna Spitzer and the auteur. """

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXlyMrv8_dQ