Hypertext pioneer Ted Nelson won the Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation award at the World Wide Web Conference that took place in Brisbane a few weeks ago, but his acceptance speech showed he wasn’t overly impressed with the web industry’s idea of exactly what hypertext should be. Nelson coined the term hypertext in his electronic document Literary Machines, and described its workings as part of his ambitious Xanadu project. The San Jose Mercury reports Nelson saying that the web had made only minimal concessions to the principals of hypertext, and says he described the current movement to add meta data to web documents as like trying to graft arms and legs onto a hamburger.