Editing Ted Nelson (section)

==Other projects==
In 1957, Nelson co-wrote and co-produced what he describes as a pioneering rock musical entitled "Anything and Everything"; it was performed at [[Swarthmore College]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/TheFirstRockMusicalRemembered |title="Anything & Everything" |first=Russ Ryan (poster and album label cartoons) |last=Ted Nelson (book and lyrics) and Dick Caplan (music) |date=November 23, 1957 |website=Internet Archive}}</ref> Two years later, during his senior year at Swarthmore, Nelson made an experimental humorous student film, ''The Epiphany of Slocum Furlow'', in which the titular hero discovers the meaning of life. Musician and composer [[Peter Schickele]], also a student at Swarthmore College, scored the film.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Epiphany of Slocum Furlow |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFgul6rwNbQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/rFgul6rwNbQ|archive-date=2021-12-11|url-status=live|publisher=Student film available on YouTube |author=Ted Nelson |year=1959|access-date=November 2, 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 1965, Nelson presented the paper "Complex Information Processing: A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate" at the [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] National Conference, in which he coined the term "hypertext".<ref name="ELMCIP"/>

In 1976, Nelson co-founded and briefly served as the advertising director of the "itty bitty machine company", or "ibm", a small computer retail store that operated from 1977 to 1980 in [[Evanston, Illinois]]. In 1978, he had a significant impact upon [[IBM]]'s thinking when he outlined his vision of the potential of personal computing to the team that three years later launched the [[IBM PC]].<ref>{{cite web|author=John Markoff|url=https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/when-big-blue-got-a-glimpse-of-the-future|title=When Big Blue Got a Glimpse of the Future|publisher=bits.blogs.nytimes.com|date=December 11, 2007|access-date=July 3, 2011|url-access=registration|archive-date=July 24, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724232608/http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/when-big-blue-got-a-glimpse-of-the-future/|url-status=live}}</ref>

From the 1960s to the mid-2000s, Nelson built an extensive collection of direct advertising mail he received in his mailbox, mainly from companies selling products in IT, print/publishing, aerospace, and engineering. In 2017, the [[Internet Archive]] began to publish it online in scanned form, in a collection titled "Ted Nelson's Junk Mail Cartons".<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5206|title=Ted Nelson's Junk Mail (and the Archive Corps Pilot) |date=2017-05-31|work=ASCII by Jason Scott |access-date=2017-07-30|language=en-US|archive-date=December 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202114128/http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5206|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-is-the-internet-archive-painstakingly-preserving-one-mans-junk-mail/|title=Why Is the Internet Archive Painstakingly Preserving One Man's Junk Mail?|website=Motherboard|date=July 25, 2017|language=en-us|access-date=2017-07-30|archive-date=July 29, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729043917/https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59p89z/why-is-the-internet-archive-painstakingly-preserving-one-mans-junk-mail |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/tednelsonjunkmail&tab=about |title=Ted Nelson's Junk Mail Cartons|website=Internet Archive |language=en |access-date=2017-07-30}}</ref>