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

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Mentioned in Nelson and Engelbart threads as a curiosity with amusing cameos by computing pioneers.

A short romantic comedy by Ted Nelson about the 'microcircuitry of love', with Doug Engelbart as his father and Stewart Brand as the villainous CEO.

“they make amusing cameos in the film by Ted Nelson” (HN, 2020)

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@raleighm Jun 2020 Recommends
on HN thread Doug Engelbart’s 1968 demo
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" [this video] [note: brief NSFW moment from 2:10 to 2:25]
Amusing cameos by Brand and Engelbart in a Nelson short film

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@tosh Sep 2017 Cites it
on HN thread Here I Stand, at Age 80
""" "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. """ [this video]
Short romantic comedy featuring Engelbart and Brand
@DonHopkins Mar 2020 Cites it
on HN thread The Call of the Ocean: Hypertext, Universal and Open (1988)
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Ted Nelson: Computer Lib / Dream Machines (1975) [pdf] (worrydream.com) [link] [link] For what it's worth, YC is helping Ted Nelson sell his "Computer Lib / Dream Machines" book: [link] This book is a truly unique and is worth owning in hardcopy format. [link] Ted versus The Media Lab [video] (youtube.com) [link] [link] Interview with Ted Nelson (notion.so) [link] [link] Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn from the Past [video] (ieee.org) [link] [link] Ted Nelson struggles with uncomprehending radio interviewer (1979) [audio] (youtube.com) [link] [link] Ted Nelson’s published papers on computers and interaction, 1965 to 1977 (archive.org) [link] [link] Ask HN: What is the best resource for understanding Ted Nelson's ZigZag? [link] [link] [link] 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) [link] "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! [this video] Ted Nelson's Channel [link]

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