Sometimes I get a chance to say “wow”, when I look at my life. Today was one such day. Today, Ted Nelson, my former boss back at Creative Computing Magazine (we’re talking 1979 here), released Xanadu to the world as open source. The whole Xanadu project changed my life. I didn’t know computers could be so cool until the Xanadu guys, back in 1979, showed me the cool. They never really went anywhere with it, but they inspired everyone with it, and its ideas are at the heart of much of our world today. Interestingly, another of my old bosses, Dave Winer, attended the session where Ted opened Xanadu. He’s another special guy who’s subtly influenced much of the word of computing. So today, you get to read one of my old bosses (Dave) talking about another (Ted). If you wonder sometimes where some of the heart and soul of ZATZ comes from, it’s because I had good teachers.