Project Xanadu

03.Apr.2009

Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. Administrators of Project Xanadu now contrast it with both paper and the World Wide Web, saying “Today’s popular software simulates paper. The World Wide Web (another imitation of paper) trivialises our original hypertext model with one-way ever-breaking links and no management of [...]

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Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. Administrators of Project Xanadu now contrast it with both paper and the World Wide Web, saying “Today’s popular software simulates paper. The World Wide Web (another imitation of paper) trivialises our original hypertext model with one-way ever-breaking links and no management of version or contents.”[1] Wired magazine called it the “longest-running vaporware story in the history of the computer industry”. The first attempt at implementation began in 1960, but it wasn’t until 1998 that an implementation (albeit incomplete) was released.

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