Ted Nelson
Theodor Holm Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher, and sociologist. He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963 and published them in 1965. According to a 1997 Forbes profile, Nelson "sees himself as a literary romantic, like a Cyrano de Bergerac, or 'the Orson Welles of software'."
17 June 1937
Born on the same birth date (17 June 1937): Clodovil Hernandes • Peter Fitzgerald (footballer)
Born on the same birth day (17 June): Aoi Morikawa • Clodovil Hernandes • Derek Ibbotson • Elena Rybakina • Elisa Rigaudo • Evelyn Irons • Greg Kinnear • J. Vernon McGee • John Robert Gregg • Karol Sikora • Marek Svatoš • Peter Le Cheminant • Tommy Franks • Vernon Coaker
Born in the same month (June 1937): Alan Haselhurst, Baron Haselhurst • Anita Desai • Chips Moman • Deric Washburn • Erich Segal • Freddy Fender • Harald Rosenthal • Jay Rockefeller • Kirkpatrick Sale • Klaus Basikow • Mortimer Zuckerman • Peter Fitzgerald (footballer) • Robin Warren • Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha • Waylon Jennings