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Xanadu: The Forgotten Hypertext

Posted by timothy on from the man-with-the-ultimate-demo dept.

wikinerd writes "Xanadu, a project started in the 1960s to create a deep-linked hypertext infrastructure with xanalogical structures, is still alive, although largely forgotten due to the emergence of the Web."

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  1. Was. by GillBates0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    WAS alive. Thank you /..

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    1. Re:Was. by khallow · · Score: 2, Funny

      You know, we ought to get some kickback from the /. admins for providing web euthanasia services.

    2. Re:Was. by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Funny

      The last access that brought it down was by some guy from Porlock.

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    3. Re:Was. by narcc · · Score: 3, Funny

      If no one ever reads the articles ... What really causes a slashdoting?

      Xanadu enthusiasts?

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  2. Movie reference by ectotherm · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do all Xanadu programmers look like Olivia Newton John?

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  3. xanadu by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Xanadu: The (righfully so) Forgotten Movie

  4. Ohhhh by Hawthorne01 · · Score: 2, Funny
    So *that's* what happened to ELO and Olivia Newton-John.

    Gene Kelly deserved better than to be in that crapfest.

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  5. So the web was invented earlier than we thought? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, boy, Al Gore is going to be pissed off...

  6. please don't awaken xanadu by corpsiclex · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...is still alive, although largely forgotten

    shhhh...must..not..remember!!
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  7. Forgotten due to the emergence of the Web... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, it was largely forgotten due to the performance of the Olivia Newton John.

    1. Re:Forgotten due to the emergence of the Web... by eno2001 · · Score: 2, Funny
      performance of the Olivia Newton John.

      From what I hear, the performance of the Olivia Newton John (ONJ) was actually pretty high when compared to the early Pentiums. Sure it was a 16-bit processor with limited access to RAM, but for it's day, it had some truly unique innovations. Now... the performance of the Kylie Minogue is another thing entirely. That processor completely kicks the ass of even the lowly Itanium and Opteron processors. I, for one welcome our Aussie Pop Diva overclocked overlords. (That's overladies to you)

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  8. An old protocol.. by grub · · Score: 2, Funny

    xanadu://olivia.newton-john
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  9. Re:So the web was invented earlier than we thought by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    For the last time, Al Gore single-handedly created the Internet, not just Web, which is only a part of it - get your facts straight.

  10. Olivia Neutron Bomb / Electric Link Orchestra by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny
    A dream, where Ted Nelson dared to go,
    His server was fine, y'know,
    'Til we linked to Xanadu.

    And now, click on the link and see,
    The website's now 503,
    Slashdotted Xanadu.

    A million lights are dancing and there you are, a shooting star
    No Google cache I see, so you're 503, eternally

    Chorus:
    Xanadu! XanaduuuuoooooooOOooOO!, (now we are here) in Xanadu!
    Xanadu! XanaduuuuoooooooOOooOO!, (pass me a beer) in Xanadu!
    (Colo boxen blinkenlights will shine... for you, Xanadu!)

    (Repeat chorus until 404 or 503...)

    1. Re:Olivia Neutron Bomb / Electric Link Orchestra by sconeu · · Score: 2, Funny

      In Xanadu did Ted Nelson
      A stately hypertext decree
      Where yet the mighty bandwidth ran
      Through usage measureless to man...

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  11. BT by mgs1000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    So does this infringe on British Telecom's hypertext patent from the eighties? :)

  12. The utter irony by AtariAmarok · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Yeah. Let's invent hypertext linking! We'll be forgotten until some future year when we are rediscovered, and someone unwittingly destroys all record of our efforts.... by hyperlinking to us."

    Anyone know if Samuel Colt was shot to death or not?

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  13. Who appointed you Netcraft? by AtariAmarok · · Score: 1, Funny
    "Xanadu is dead. In fact, Xanadu was never alive"

    So who went and appointed you Netcraft?

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  14. rosebud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    you my friend are a overdressed anarchist...

    i am not overdressed!

    this is a refrence to a even older xanadu movie then olivia newton john.. thank you..

  15. What the… xand??? Xandau?? by jspoon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did anyone else waste 30 seconds of his life trying to figure out what a logical exclusive and would work like? Please let me not be the only one.