I like the way this article treats Nelson as not that important. The constant hero worshiping is very annoying sometimes. We know [1] that there were people before and during Nelson's time that were just as creative on the "ideas" side. Berners-Lee got it working on the "rough consensus and working code" KISS principle side. I am sorry but the (albeit small) group of people who consider Nelson the "real" father of the web are wrong. To say nothing of the fact that journalism has by far overemphasized the web compared to the Internet. Even when a small number of journalists correct for that it's Kahn and Cerf with TCP/IP not Licklider, Baran and Davies.
If anybody it ought to be Vannevar Bush or Doug Engelbart, not Ted Nelson.
But Ted Nelson had a bunch of stuff figured out that the web is still struggling with today (such as proper attribution and an automated royalty system based on fractional contribution and derivation).
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext#Early_precursors_to_h...