Information technologist

Ted Nelson

Coined the word hypertext in 1963 and has spent sixty years arguing that the web implemented it badly.

Theodor Holm Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher of computer science, and sociologist. He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963 and published them in 1965. According to his profile published in Forbes in 1997, Nelson "sees himself as a literary romantic, like a Cyrano de Bergerac, or 'the Orson Welles of software'."

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Born
1937-06-17, Chicago, USAA Thursday
At birth
Sun in Gemini, Moon in Libra
Nationality
United States
Birth-time source
No birth time on record: Rodden X

Birth Chart

1937-06-17, Chicago, USA · time unknown, noon chart

America/Chicagothe zone used then

The chart

Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunGemini26°03′Direct
MoonLibra17°45′Direct
MercuryGemini5°23′Direct
VenusTaurus10°44′Direct
MarsScorpio20°10′Retrograde
JupiterCapricorn25°39′Retrograde
SaturnAries4°24′Direct
UranusTaurus12°09′Direct
NeptuneVirgo16°17′Direct
PlutoCancer27°25′Direct

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Ted Nelson is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.

Their Astrocartography

Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Ted Nelson was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.

Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.

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