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htmx.org / CEO of Java Pants
@htmx.org

in addition to coining the terms hypertext & hypermedia, Ted Nelson also coined the term "clanker" *in context* over half a century ago and i am LOSING MY MIND

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leah 🛸
@spacegirl.ing

from the image nelson uses not "clanker" but "clank", and to refer to what we would now call "slop", while "clanker" nowadays has a different meaning as a supposed slur for robots though