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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 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. 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...

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

    shhhh...must..not..remember!!
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  5. 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...)

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

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

  7. 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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