You can check yourself by reading TBL's first WWW site [1].

In essence, Ted Nelson (and Vannevar Bush) are referenced in the "History" section, and also for coining the term "Hypertext", but not from the "Technical" [2] and "Standards" [3] sections.

[1]: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

[2]: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Technical.html

[3]: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/Standards/Overview.html